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Your thoughts on Cyberspace?

Jesus Nut · 2012-09-30 21:09:02

Just read this guys book, "Amusing ourselves to Death". This is an interesting interview of Neil. I think he was pretty much bang on with every thing he says. You can easily see how facebook would fit into this interview or even mobile phones... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49rcVQ1vFAY I actually deleted my social…

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Jesus Nut

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Just read this guys book, "Amusing ourselves to Death".

This is an interesting interview of Neil. I think he was pretty much bang on with every thing he says. You can easily see how facebook would fit into this interview or even mobile phones...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49rcVQ1vFAY

I actually deleted my social networking accounts after watching that interview!

What do you think of Neil Postmans views?

He was very much inline with Marshall Mcluhan

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#2 05-10-2012 10:31pm
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I've recently read Nicholas Carr's book, "The Shallows" which explores this theme as well (and references McLuhan quite a fair bit).

Unreal that this interview is 17 years old! Talking about information junkies and information glut. He's basically predicting "Big Data" here.

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