“People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman (1931-2003) died yesterday, October 5, 2003. Postman was chair of the Department of Culture and Communications at New York University, wrote important books on education (including Teaching as a Conserving Activity and The Disappearance of Childhood), on the effect of media (Amusing Ourselves to Death), and on the overall effects of technology (Technopoly). Asking questions like, ”To what extent do new media enhance or diminish our moral sense, our capacity for goodness?”
Listen to Neil Postman speak about Media Ecology Education at the Chicago, SCA conference.
For those who are reasonably conversant in semiotics or postmodern communication theory this may not new but as you listen consider implications for communication within faith communities.
Peace, dwight
