It's funny modern man thinks he's progressing forward just because of tech advances.
Mass printing of cheap books increased access information but we lost this skill for the most part of memorizing long sections like it was nothing in the past.
We also lost appreciation, and now often choose worthless dopamine hits instead.
Before we had mass printing of books people like Cicero would memorize long writings and rhetorical treatises.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
It's funny modern man thinks he's progressing forward just because of tech advances.
Mass printing of cheap books increased access information but we lost this skill for the most part of memorizing long sections like it was nothing in the past.
We also lost appreciation, and now often choose worthless dopamine hits instead.