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Yep. Plato wrote about being worried that the rise of literacy rates among the youth would rot their brains, because they'd never have to memorize stuff if they could just write it down.
There's actually some merit to that. People have a harder time remembering things that they know are written down and retrievable (because there's less need)
Absolutely. There's also some merit to similar worries about television and the internet. It's just never the civilization-ending infocalypse that it's cracked up to be (or at least not so far).