Neil Postman Quotes

Prior To The Age Of Telegraphy, The Information-action Ratio Was Sufficiently Close So That Most People Had A Sense Of Being Able To Control Some Of The Contingencies In Their Lives. What People Knew About Had Action-value. In The Information World Created By Telegraphy, This Sense Of Potency Was Lost, Precisely Because The Whole World Became Context For News. Everything Became Everyone's Business. For The First Time, We Were Sent Information Which Answered No Question We Had Asked, And Which, In Any Case, Did Not Permit The Right Of Reply.

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