Amusing Ourselves to Death
Amusing Ourselves to Death
What does Postman believe that our society had reached in 1985 in regards to our use of electronic media?
What does Postman believe that our society had reached in 1985 in regards to our use of electronic media?
From the text:
"We have reached, however, a critical mass in that electronic media have decisively and irreversibly changed the character of our symbolic environment. We are now a culture whose information, ideas and epistemology are given form by television, not by the printed word.”