Neil Postman on Cyberspace, 1995
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"Am I using this technology, or is it using me?" Charlene Hunter Gault interviews media theorist and cultural critic Neil Postman on PBS' The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour in 1995. Postman discusses new media and the "Faustian bargain" of technological change in the context of the "Information Superhighway" and the Internet.
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SOCI 341 BROUGHT ME HERE~
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Such amazing foresight.... Everyone must have thought he was crazy talking about "information junkies" in 1995.
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I am sure I can research the meaningfulness of "TO me Bradbury of Fahrenheit 451 fame is just as close as Huxley and Orwell." But would you like to explain. Please and thank you!
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Read his book.
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"To invent the ship is to invent the shipwreck"
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The tool IS the programme. You can't stab some one with a teddy bear any more you can cuddle a knife. "The medium is the message"
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On Bradbury: agreed. Although, more a trinity of all three. Surveillance, pleasure, no history. "A pig, in a cage, on antibiotics"
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Word!
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We were assigned Postman's book "Technopoly" in one of my college classes. It was stunning, and actually changed my perspective of technology. This man was a brilliant writer. I encourage everyone to check it out. Warning: those who love technology will find it disturbing and it might make you angry. But if you read with an open mind, he has something important to say.
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Technology is not neutral!!! Go back to Marshall Mcluhan!
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I don't listen to any radio or watch any television, but I certainly believe that Neil Postman is a brilliant intellectual, but ironically, the internet has certainly given me the privilige to watch this.
His ideas about the lack of human contact from technological movements in each era seem reasonable, but I believe that cell-phones as much as ipods can be used in the most benefiting way, and they can also be used in the most nonsensical way.
FATHOM2356 3 years ago 11
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"... Have no sense of what is relevant, and what is irrelevant..."
Kind of like wikipedia, readers of encyclopedia dramatica, and 4chan.
brain1012 2 years ago 6