Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without prote… - Neil Postman

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morning newspaper, causes you to alter your plans for the day, or to take some action you would not otherwise have taken, or provides insight into some problem you are required to solve?

Until, years from now, when it will be noticed that the massive collection and speed-of-light retrieval of data have been of great value to large-scale organizations but have solved very little of importance to most people and have created at least as many problems for them as they may have solved.