Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if… — 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… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if… — 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
