“any decline in the force of institutions makes people vulnerable to #information#chaos#NeilPostman#Culture#Technology
2 “it is only beginning to be understood that #cultures#information#meaning#NeilPostman#Culture#Technology
“embedded in every #tool#ideological#NeilPostman#technology
#NeilPostman was loudly calling out this problem in 1992. What is a university going to do? AI is in the smartphone of every 19 year old impressing them with filters on videos. Every Microsoft XBox game has AI logic to compete against. The youth going into school don't resist technology.
#UnreasonablePeople#ReasonablePeople#NeilPostman#MarshallMcLuhan#RoundSparrowIsUnreasonableyoutu.be/MoKlnp17sJ0?...
I talk about Neil Postman shortly after his death in October 2003, at a New York State Communication Association (NYSCA) memorial in his honor in the Catskills. I recount how I first met Marshall McLuhan in 1977, when Postman asked me as his doctoral student at New York University to write an Introduction for McLuhan's "Laws of the Media" (Tetrad) essay in et cetera Magazine. Also mentioned in my talk - Lance Strate, Thom Gencarelli, and Molly Vozick-Levinson. (Thanks to Claude Almansi for the caption transcript.) See the full memorial with 14 additional speakers here http://youtu.be/qXA4SIvRRv0
Over Bill Gates(!): “…ik zou het mooi vinden als hij meer oog had voor de politieke en sociale gevolgen van technologie.… Terwijl het van wezenlijk belang is dat degenen die onze technologische toekomst bepalen, tot ons spreken over de sociale implicaties.” Punt. Visionair, wel. #NeilPostman