Neil Postman:
(New York, 8 March 1931 – there, 5 October 2003).
American communications scholar and publicist, best known as a media, education and technology critic.
He also published on subjects including pedagogy, semantics and culture. He became internationally known for his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death, about the effects of the media on the human mind. He died of lung cancer in 2003.
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audiance, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.
