adrian monck

Tag: Technology

  • 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…

  • 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]

  • 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…

  • Pramit Singh has an interesting blog on the new Apple iPhone here.