May

Informing Ourselves to Death: 20 Yrs Later

Posted by Bill

photo: aheadinbiz.com

Neil Postman was a humanist, who believed that “new technology can never substitute for human values.”

In the text of this 1990 speech, given to the German Informatics Society, he warns us all: [That] “which once was our friend, turned against us, as well. I refer to information….The tie between information and action has been severed….It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don’t know what to do with it.”