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Postman on technology
I recently came across this brief essay from the late, great Neil Postman. You might enjoy it. His five conclusions below. First, that we always pay a price for technology; the greater the technology, the greater the price. Second, that there are always winners and losers, and that the winners always try to persuade the…
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New technology: first awe, then fear…
Here is a test. Watch this New Scientist video and think of all the potential uses for this technology. (And would the article be the same without the video?) [HT: Marc Andreessen]
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The social consequences of media technology
It’s not often I find myself recommending the Archbishop of Canterbury to journalists, but one of my minor obsessions is the changing social impact of media technology. Here’s the Archbishop, in a recent lecture, reminding us that it applies to dead tree technology too, and in making his appeal reminding us too that some tides…
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Pramit Singh has an interesting blog on the new Apple iPhone here.