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Postman
An annotated collection of 2 books on postman, spanning 1985 to 1992. Featuring works by Neil Postman — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman, 1985 · Viking Penguin
Postman's thesis: the shift from print to television as the dominant medium did not merely change the content of public discourse but its structure — television rewards entertainment over argument, image over text, feeli…
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Neil Postman, 1992 · Alfred A. Knopf
Postman's later, sharper book: the argument that contemporary culture has moved from using technology as a tool (tool-using cultures) through technocracy (where tools reshape social institutions) to technopoly — a cultur…