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Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers, mobile devices, and cruise control in cars, and was critical of uses of technology, such as personal computers in school. [1]
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by educator Neil Postman. It has been translated into eight languages and sold some 200,000 copies worldwide. In 2005, Postman's son Andrew reissued the book in a 20th anniversary edition. [not verified in body]
[3] [6] Neil Postman taught a course, Communication, The Invisible Environment, in the Fall of 1976. [ 7 ] After a preview broadcast at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 7, 1957, [ 8 ] the program premiered on Monday, September 23, 1957 at 6:30 a.m. in New York [ 9 ] and aired at varying early times between 5:30 and 7:30 a.m. elsewhere. [ 10 ]
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In a speech to the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik) on October 11, 1990 in Stuttgart, sponsored by IBM-Germany, Neil Postman said the following: "The tie between information and action has been severed. Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment ...
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