Neil Postman on Cyberspace, 1995
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Uploaded by tranquileye on Nov 16, 2006
"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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@sugarfoot34 I envy anyone who had this man as a teacher. He was/is still a genius.
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Neil Postman was a great man.....He was one of my professors and mentors while attending NYU. Brilliant indeed.
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Wow.... I wonder what he would think now with ithe nformation "overload" and "glut" we have due to the social networks that were not around before he died. He almost predicted what they would do. And I can't even imagine what he would say about what cell phones, ipods and their ilk has done to our society.... YIKES! But...hardly anyone listened to him then, and I am sure they would not now. TO me Bradbury of Fahrenheit 451 fame is just as close as Huxley and Orwell.
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Just because we are currently misusing a tool doesn't mean that the tool itself is inherently evil or necessarially destructive. It just means that we need to find a better way to use the tool.
You can use a knife to stab somebody. You can use that same knife to chop up some vegetables for dinner. The tool isn't the problem. It's how we use it.
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@eyewitness043 because he died.
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Sure thing, it's a fantastic book; really demystifies a lot of social phenomena in this day and age...
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@ragglefraggle09 - Thank you. Gonna check that out.
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he did in "amusing ourselves to death"
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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 2 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 5