Finished reading: Technopoly by Neil Postman 📚 A persuasive account of the rise and triumph (heh) of technology over all aspects of culture. I imagine it rings even more true today than when it was written (1992!). Some of his historical work is a little broad and impressionistic. However, if, like me, yo... bbowman.micro.blog

@bbowman I really enjoyed Technopoly when I read it a few years ago, and enjoyed your quotes and comments popping up in my timeline

@samjc thank you, Sam

@bbowman If you have read Alan Jacobs’ piece on The Standard Critique of Technology, I think you’d appreciate it. Especially fresh off some vintage Postman 🤓. Fifteen years ago, Postman floated across the radar (my dad and other elders at his church were all reading his 1985 Amusing Ourselves to Death), and after reading him, it’s impossible not to think, “So, no one listened?!”