Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 - October 5, 2003) was an American professor, media theorist, and cultural critic who is best known by the general public for his 1985 book about television, "Amusing Ourselves to Death". For more than forty years, he was associated with New York University. Postman was an old-fashioned humanist, who believed that "there is a limit to the promise of new technology, and that it cannot be a substitute for human values." Wikipedia
Postman has the following works on the web: Excerpts from Technopoly , the book with Postman's most general criticisms of technology. www.preservenet.com/theory/Postman.html
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Neil Postman. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Postman
Neil Postman was University Professor, Paulette Goddard Chair of Media Ecology, and Chair of the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. Among his twenty books are studies of childhood ( The Disappearance of Childhood ), public di issuesetc.org/resource/prglog/progams.htm
Every year around this time the New York Times Sunday Magazine publishes its " The Lives They Lived " issue, which offers bite-sized profiles of the most fascinating, if not well-known, personalities to pass on during the previous 12 months. It's strange media-ecology.org/publications/In_Medias_Res/imrv1n1.html
As a cultural critic, professor of Media Ecology, and author of numerous books on the themes of education and technology, Neil Postman is well positioned to comment on the relation of technology to culture. The relation, as he sees it, is one in which cu www.stemnet.nf.ca/~elmurphy/emurphy/technop.html
