Justin M Piehowski
@jpiehowski
Justin M Piehowski
Neil Postman: “Am I Using This Technology? Or Is It Using Me?” (1995)
youtube.comHumans will become information junkies,
Postman, 1995
“Information is dangerous when it has no place to go, when there is no theory to which it applies, no pattern in which it fits, when there is no higher purpose that it serves. Alfred North Whitehead called such information “inert,” but that metaphor is too passive. Information without regulation can be lethal.”
Neil Postman
https://interesi.wordpress
It’s also the next stage in the long-running industrialization of human communication—one of the subjects of my forthcoming book Superbloom. For nearly two centuries, we’ve embraced the relentless speeding up of communication by mechanical means, believing that the industrial ideals of efficiency, productivity, and optimization are as applicable to... See more
Nicholas Carr • ROUGH TYPE
Should industrial ideas apply to communication?