Good one

Plato deliberately did not put some of his teachings into writing and only taught them orally, because he found written text unfit for the purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_unwritten_doctrines

I mean, he wasn't wrong, but he couldn't foresee the positives that would come of the new tech.

But sometimes the new tech is a hot x-ray foot measuring machine.