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Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)

74 points · 57 comments · spectraldrift

  1. renox · · focus · HN ↗
    > hands are wrung that communication will become rife with error and misunderstanding because unlike the telegraph, the newfangled telephone leaves no written record!

    Well let's not forget that early phone communication quality was ahem not-very-good, so of course errors were an issue.

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