After writing got first invented: "How do we square memory decline with powerful information storage abilities coming from the new cuneiform script? Are children outsourcing memorization to this new 'writing' technology? What is going to happen to human memory as a result of this so-called 'inovation'? Are we making ourselves dumber? Experts suspect in a few generations an average human won't be able to remember their own family's names without the aid of this 'writing'..."