“Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Today, we must look to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, as a metaphor of our national character and aspiration, its symbol… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“What we need to consider about the computer has nothing to do with its efficiency as a teaching tool. We need to… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“From millions of sources all over the globe, through every possible channel and medium—light waves, airwaves, ticker tapes, computer banks, telephone wires,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Attend any conference on telecommunications or computer technology, and you will be attending a celebration of innovative machinery that generates, stores, and… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“There can be no disputing that the computer has increased the power of large-scale organizations like the armed forces, or airline companies… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better — best of all,… — 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
