Neil Postman (1931-2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic. He is best known for his work in the philosophy of technology, which he often called media ecology. Amongst the numerous books he wrote on the subject through the second half of the 20th century, Technopoly, is one of his best known. Postman offers a technological pe …

In Amusing Ourselves to Death, Postman presents two fearful visions of the future, those of George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World.

In Technopoly, Postman argues that technology has become increasingly dominant in American culture. He contends that technology has not only changed what we do

Neil Postman was an American author, educator, media theorist, and cultural critic, who is best known for his work in the field of communications and technology

In 1985, Neil Postman wrote a book called Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. The book is a criticism of television and it

“You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?”

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