CronoDAS comments on The Great Brain is Located Externally - Less Wrong
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One historical view of what was going on there is that much of the interesting stuff going on during Plato's time was due to the intersection of 'oral culture' and 'print culture'. Eric Havelock and Marshall McLuhan, in particular, wrote about that - I don't have a good online reference though.
I have a short blog post mentioning it here.
EDIT: Fixed link. HT CronoDAS
Fixed your last link for you.