American culture Quote by 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 on the…

— Neil Postman

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

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

“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 consumers of…

— Neil Postman

“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

“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

“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 by technological…

— 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