Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

by Neil Postman

What is television? What kinds of conversations does it permit? What are the intellectual tendencies it encourages? What sort of culture does it produce?

distinction between a technology and a medium.

technology is to a medium

brain is to t...

A technology, in other words, is merely a machine. A medium is the social and intellectual environment a machine creates.

every technology has an inherent bias. It has within its physical form a predisposition toward being used in certain ways and not others.