Sublime

Theirs was a duet of image and instancy, and together they played the tune of a new kind of public discourse in America.

Technopoly by Neil Postman is a must-read for exposing our blind spots about the faith we put in technology

Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban

The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products.

it will shortly be followed by a series of commercials that will, in an instant, defuse the import of the news, in fact render it largely banal.

From the moment technology allowed us to know which kinds of content influenced viewership the most, the old business model of the news industry was dead media walking. From that point through today, the business model of the press changed from presenting information to manipulating brains.

The phrase is a means of acknowledging the fact that the world as mapped by the speeded-up electronic media has no order or meaning and is not to be taken seriously.

In a culture dominated by print, public discourse tends to be characterized by a coherent, orderly arrangement of facts and ideas.