“How does a culture change when new technologies are introduced to it? And is it always desirable for a culture to accommodate… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“As for change brought on by technology, this native optimism is exploited by entrepreneurs, who work hard to infuse the population with… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological. I mean “ecological” in the same sense as the word is used… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“technological change is not additive; it is ecological. A new technology does not merely add something; it changes everything”.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“to whom will the technology give greater power and freedom? And whose power and freedom will be reduced by it?” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“There being no international copyright laws, “pirated” editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“the world we live in is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact, whether actual or imagined, that will… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
