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It’s at times like this I like to recall that Socrates felt literacy destroyed the mind. He was very against it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Since the rise of agriculture, we've lost the ability to hunt with spears

Agreed. This may be apocryphal but the internet told me the same things were said of books when printing presses made books widely available.

Socrates said writing was making people stupid. I don't know whether that was before or after he prevented Euthyphro from starting the abolition of slavery.

Has the use of the lever ruined our ability to lift large objects?

I'd read the piece critically, but my brain was destroyed by too much VHS back in the 80s.

I like remind people that in the nineteenth century, fictional novels were accused of making us all dumber too.

Yup. No one horses any more because... CARS. Film at 11.

It's killed the market for "men are too stubborn to stop and ask for directions" jokes, that's for sure

See also “The Printing Press is ruining your brain” circa 1600

I can't help but notice as a Motorcyclist for more than 20+ years that overall driver skill has gone to shit since widespread use of GPS nav systems and smartphones became omnipresent.