http://www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/neil-postman--five-things.html
Great topic, hat and beard. Socrates tells us that "the unexamined life is not worth living."
Information is becoming less and less meaningful. In the computer age, people don't want information, not really. What they actually desire is to
feel informed. Thus, information gets disposably consumed rather than internalized fully.
It's my feeling though that "Information Age" is a slogan concocted by computer corporations.
After all, who doesn't feel that they want or need more information?
I prefer the original tag: the Computer Age. Its direct predecessors being the Space Age and Atomic Age.
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