The invention of Writing vs the Computer age

From the dialogues of Plato, in Phaedrus he describes a paragraph where king of all Egypt Thamus questions the god Thoth about the usefulness of each of his arts. amongst them they speak of writing and why it must be taught to all egyptians. 

There Thamus negates the virtues of writing thus 

“You, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess. For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practise their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are not part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.”

On reading this one can hardly not stop to wonder that something written so long ago somehow seems so absolutely apt in this age of computers and the World Wide Web where information is at the fingertips but knowledge is so hard to come by .