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“This moves us very quickly towards a world in which the Internet shows us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.”
David Mannheim • The Person in Personalisation: The Story Of How Marketing's Most Treasured Possession Became Anything but Personal
How might you educate those leaders? How can you be the best steward of technology, but also be the best utilizer of technology?
On the Enduring Relevance of Marshall McLuhan
Ezra Klein • I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message
the clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
As media scientist George Gerbner summed up: ‘[He] who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behaviour.’28
Rutger Bregman • Humankind: A Hopeful History
the beholding of idols, or the use of technology, conforms men to them.
Marshall McLuhan • Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon - Understanding Media_ the Extensions of Man_ Critical Edition-Gingko Press
we have less to fear from government restraints than from television glut; that, in fact, we have no way of protecting ourselves from information disseminated by corporate America; and that, therefore, the battles for liberty must be fought on different terrains from where they once were.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. Marshall McLuhan