“technological change is not additive; it is ecological. A new technology does not merely add something; it changes everything”.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to… — 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
“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… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
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
If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Of course, like the brain itself, every technology has an inherent bias. It has within its physical form a predisposition toward being… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“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
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
“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
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
“To every Old World belief, habit, or tradition, there was and still is a technological alternative. To prayer, the alternative is penicillin;… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not important that those who ask… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“As the spectacular triumphs of technology mounted, something else was happening: old sources of belief came under siege. Nietzsche announced that God… — 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
The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Surrounding every technology are institutions whose organization—not to mention their reason for being—reflects the world-view promoted by the technology.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“new technologies compete with old ones—for time, for attention, for money, for prestige, but mostly for dominance of their world-view.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“technology imperiously commandeers our most important terminology. It redefines “freedom,” “truth,” “intelligence,” “fact,” “wisdom,” “memory,” “history”—all the words we live by. And… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“New technologies alter the structure of our interests: the things we think about. They alter the character of our symbols: the things… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Technocracy gave us the idea of progress, and of necessity loosened our bonds with tradition—whether political or spiritual. Technocracy filled the air… — 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
“Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of discourse in it's boldest… — 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… — 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
“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
“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
“a peek-a-boo world, where now this event, now that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again. It is an improbable… — 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
