Neil Postman

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

— 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

Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some…

— Neil Postman

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could…

— Neil Postman

“There being no international copyright laws, “pirated” editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.”

— Neil Postman

“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the…

— Neil Postman

“Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose…

— Neil Postman

“the world we live in is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact, whether actual or imagined,…

— Neil Postman

“Tüketici psikodramalarla yatıştırılan bir hastadır.”

— Neil Postman

“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized…

— Neil Postman

“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,”

— Neil Postman

We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.

— Neil Postman

“In America, the least amusing people are its professional entertainers.”

— Neil Postman

“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of…

— Neil Postman

“The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create?…

— Neil Postman

“But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it,…

— 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

“We are all, as Huxley says someplace, Great Abbreviators, meaning that none of us has the wit to know the whole truth,…

— Neil Postman

“The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital.”

— Neil Postman

By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of…

— Neil Postman

[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all…

— Neil Postman

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and…

— Neil Postman

“Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.”

— Neil Postman

“Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists…

— 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