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?
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"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.”
