Tech and Society

Perhaps the most important insight is this: when we criticize our technology, we’re really criticizing ourselves. And when we try to imagine better systems, we’re really trying to imagine better ways of being human.

You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. Walker Percy

Neil Postman's questions to ask of a new technology: What is the problem to which this technology is the solution? Whose problem is it? What new problems might result from solving this problem? Which people and institutions might be harmed by this solution?... See more