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I thought of BTC keys too when writing this, perhaps I digress, the significance of memorization keeps reaffirming itself to me.

Socrates discussed the forgetfulness that comes with writing, and when you rely on paper or electronics to store information, including keys, you really have to extend the necessities of actual ownership to these materials.

For this reason I rank developing, manufacturing and powering practical, self owned local data storage as one of the main challenges of our time.
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Callum 7mo ago

I know the Socrates quote you're referring to; it's a powerful one and 'shook' me the first time I read it. Powerful to see the debate playing out during the transition from an oral to a written culture (and from the side that 'lost').

And of course it's an attributed quote, as the word of Socrates was recorded in writing by Plato.

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Gregor 7mo ago

Thanks for the additional context.

I value the reference highly since it lends a rarely acknowledged phenomenon some academic credence. I have mentioned elsewhere that I think the flexibility of electronic text helps, it still has to deal with a drastically limited bandwidth though, and Emojis hardly provide an adequate compensation.

One day the prompts will end haha