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Form Quotes by Neil Postman
- My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the…
- Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance…
- The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired…
- The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning…
- When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form…
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