This afternoon, overcome by a mounting frustration at being unable to get two monitors working on my new single-graphic-card-equipped home desktop personal computer, I blurted out the following on Facebook (only a couple of minutes before I entered a plaintive plea for help on the same forum, which resulted in several responses, and indeed, evenContinue reading “High-Tech, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down”
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Neil Postman On Disguised Technologies, And The Night Class
In his sometimes curiously conservative Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Neil Postman writes: Some technologies come in disguise. Rudyard Kipling called them “technologies in repose.” They do not look like technologies, and because of that they do their work, for good or ill, without much criticism or even awareness. This applies not only to IQ tests and toContinue reading “Neil Postman On Disguised Technologies, And The Night Class”