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Neil Postman

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Media theorist and cultural critic whose speech 'Informing Ourselves to Death' discussed the social implications of computer technology and how it redistributes power and freedom.

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"Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman can help. Pray it is theirs and not Ted Kaczynski's thought that formulates the resistance to tech."
"I very much know this isn't even remotely a particularly new or revolutionary idea and already DFW, Baudrillard, Neil Postman, William S. Burroughs, Marshall McLuhan and probably twelve dozen other people have written about this in some form over the last 60 or so years"
"Extracted from a speech given at a meeting of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik) on October 11, 1990 in Stuttgart, sponsored by IBM-Germany. 'It is to be expected that the winners … will encourage the losers to be enthusiastic about computer technology.'"
Neil Postman - Informing Ourselves to Death · u/TaylorFucksALot · ↑34 · 2023-03-02
"I very much know this isn't even remotely a particularly new or revolutionary idea and already DFW, Baudrillard, Neil Postman, William S. Burroughs, Marshall McLuhan and probably twelve dozen other people have written about this in some form over the last 60 or so years"
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