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Neil Postman's The Surrender Of Culture To Technology

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“Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that,” said Neil Postman in The Surrender of Culture to Technology. Postman is not shy when it comes to voicing his opinion on technology expressed in his famous quotes “What is the problem to which the new technology is the solution.” Postman is not against technology but he wants people to be aware of their dependence of technology. A notable amount of presume that this is not a recent problem. Including Kathryn Hulleman who stated “The problem with technology does not lie only with this generation images are of people are found on the internet, everyone sitting on the subway with their newspapers held up to their face, not interacting with each other.” (Image

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