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Is Autocorrect Enhancing Our Brains or Eroding Our Humanity?

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Early Modern Information Overload

i asked a professor of history and the philosophy of science what people were worried about after gutenberg invented the printing press. He said it was information overload, which he credits to anne blair's book on librarya classification systems in early modern period. The process began with writing but is quickened again by printed materials, says Professor Pierre-Michel Mertens. It has now been stepped up to the next level thanks to the internet, Mr Mertens adds.

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