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QUOTE A DAY - Nov. 9, 2010
Greetings fellow quote lovers:
Today is a special issue, dedicated to one of the best
minds who wrote on technology in the 20th Century; Neil
Postman.
Do yourself a favor and pick up one of his many books.
You will find them accessible and actually fun to read.
Here are some quotes from two of his books: "Technopoly"
and "Amusing Ourselves To Death". If you like these
quotations, you will love his book.
Best,
JA
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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows
that technological change is always a Faustian bargain:
Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not
always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes
creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys
more than it creates. But it is never one-sided. The
invention of the printing press is an excellent example.
Printing fostered the modern idea of individuality but
it destroyed the medieval sense of community and social
integration. Printing created prose but made poetry into
an exotic and elitist form of expression. Printing made
modern science possible but transformed religious
sensibility into an exercise in superstition. Printing
assisted in the growth of the nation-state but, in so
doing, made patriotism into a sordid if not a murderous
emotion.
--Neil Postman
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Children are the living messages we send to a time we
will not see.
--Neil Postman
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A new technology tends to favor some groups of people
and harms other groups. School teachers, for example,
will, in the long run, probably be made obsolete by
television, as blacksmiths were made obsolete by the
automobile, as balladeers were made obsolete by the
printing press. Technological change, in other words,
always results in winners and losers.
--Neil Postman
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**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Just as we said during apartheid that it was inappropriate
for international artists to perform in South Africa in
a society founded on discriminatory laws and racial
exclusivity, so it would be wrong for Cape Town Opera to
perform in Israel.
See at the bottom for the answer
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*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
When I hear people talk about the information super
highway, it will become possible to shop at home, and
bank at home, and get your texts at home, and get your
entertainment at home, so I often wonder if this doesn't
signify the end of any community life.
--Neil Postman
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Television is altering the meaning of "being informed"
by creating a species of information that might properly
be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean
false information. It means misleading information -
misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial inform-
ation - information that creates the illusion of knowing
something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.
--Neil Postman
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I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid
growth of new technology. However, it is possible for
us to learn how to control our own uses of technology.
The "forum" that I think is best suited for this is our
educational system. If students get a sound education
in the history, social effects and psychological biases
of technology, they may grow to be adults who use
technology rather than be used by it.
----Neil Postman
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What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What
Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a
book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
Orwell feared those who would deprive us information.
Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we
would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared
that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared
the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell
feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared
we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some
equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the
centrifugal bumblepuppy.
--Neil Postman
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MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?
Just as we said during apartheid that it was inappropriate
for international artists to perform in South Africa in a
society founded on discriminatory laws and racial
exclusivity, so it would be wrong for Cape Town Opera to
perform in Israel.
MYSTERY QUOTE ANSWER: Archbishop Tutu
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