Technology Quotes by Neil Postman

“Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.”

— Neil Postman

“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions”

— Neil Postman

“People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think”

— Neil Postman

The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.

— Neil Postman

“In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.”

— Neil Postman

“technological change is not additive; it is ecological. A new technology does not merely add something; it changes everything”.”

— Neil Postman

“to whom will the technology give greater power and freedom? And whose power and freedom will be reduced by it?”

— Neil Postman

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

— Neil Postman

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age,…

— Neil Postman

“New technologies alter the structure of our interests: the things we think about. They alter the character of our symbols: the things…

— Neil Postman

“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

“Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means…

— Neil Postman

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

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

“As for change brought on by technology, this native optimism is exploited by entrepreneurs, who work hard to infuse the population with…

— Neil Postman

“How does a culture change when new technologies are introduced to it? And is it always desirable for a culture to accommodate…

— Neil Postman

“Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological. I mean “ecological” in the same sense as the word is used…

— Neil Postman

“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

But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology…

— Neil Postman

Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us…

— Neil Postman

Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh…

— Neil Postman

“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

“To every Old World belief, habit, or tradition, there was and still is a technological alternative. To prayer, the alternative is penicillin;…

— Neil Postman

“For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not important that those who ask…

— Neil Postman

“What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with…

— Neil Postman

“Attend any conference on telecommunications or computer technology, and you will be attending a celebration of innovative machinery that generates, stores, and…

— Neil Postman

“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

“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

“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

“As the spectacular triumphs of technology mounted, something else was happening: old sources of belief came under siege. Nietzsche announced that God…

— Neil Postman

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or…

— Neil Postman

I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to…

— Neil Postman

“new technologies compete with old ones—for time, for attention, for money, for prestige, but mostly for dominance of their world-view.”

— Neil Postman

“Surrounding every technology are institutions whose organization—not to mention their reason for being—reflects the world-view promoted by the technology.”

— Neil Postman

“What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies”

— Neil Postman

There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking…

— Neil Postman

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

“Of course, like the brain itself, every technology has an inherent bias. It has within its physical form a predisposition toward being…

— Neil Postman

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults…

— Neil Postman

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