Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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What is television? What kinds of conversations does it permit? What are the intellectual tendencies it encourages? What sort of culture does it produce?
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distinction between a technology and a medium.
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technology is to a medium
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brain is to t...
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A technology, in other words, is merely a machine. A medium is the social and intellectual environment a machine creates.
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every technology has an inherent bias. It has within its physical form a predisposition toward being used in certain ways and not others.
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