Thursday, February 09, 2012

Postman: our culture conspiring against itself

As for change brought on by technology, this native optimism is exploited by entrepreneurs, who work hard to infuse the population with a unity of improbable hope, for they know it is economically unwise to reveal the price to be paid for technological change.  One might say, then, that, if there is a conspiracy of any kind, it is that of a culture conspiring against itself.

Technopoly p12

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