From my point of view, Mr. Freud, it makes a BIG difference.

In preparation for those Vancouver lectures I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm working my way through a raft of books on technology and society. Which means you're going to hear about them in this blog. A lot.

I went back this past week to reread Neil Postman's 1992 Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology; it's one of the core reflections on this topic, and even if you disagree with Postman you can't ignore him. (I've got to go back and reread Jacques Ellul as well.)

I first read ...