“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
“What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy 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
“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
The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable. — 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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.” — 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
