When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was… — 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
