The Surrender of Culture to Technology – C.M. Mayo's Book Notes & Convos

BY C.M. MAYO — September 20, 2021
UPDATE: This blog was then entitled Madam Mayo (2006-2022).

I find it startling in the extreme, here in the present rhinocerosness, to reencounter Neil Postman’s lecture on “The Surrender of Culture to Technology” from 1997. Actually, I read Postman’s Technolopy: The Surrender of Culture to Technology a few years ago, but just this week I revisited his lecture apropos of that, archived on YouTube. Perhaps you, dear reader, will find it as eerie as I did.

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Neil Postman’s 1997 Lecture “The Surrender of Culture to Technology”