Sublime

While we may begin using tools for our collective benefit, we slowly remake our world around the needs of technology, such as building highways and suburbs to support the automobile, or changing school curriculums so that they work on computers. Once we’ve done that for long enough, we eventually find ourselves inside something like a machine—a sel

Loss of self. Of all of the forms of impoverishment that can be seen or felt in America, loss of self, or death in life, is surely the most devastating. Beginning with school, if not before, we are systematically stripped of imagination, creativity, heritage, dreams and personal uniqueness in order to style us into productive units for a mass, tech

Television, a medium built around the skillful manipulation of images, ones that can overpower reality, is our primary form of mass communication. A television is turned on for six hours and forty-seven minutes a day in the average household. The average American daily watches more than four hours of television. That amounts to twenty-eight hours a

La dépossession du savoir, très mal compensée par la vulgarisation médiatique, pose le problème historique clé de la démocratie cognitive.

I take the counsel of researcher danah boyd, who warned that when we teach our children to be suspicious of everything they see, “we ask students to challenge their sacred cows but don’t give them a new framework through which to make sense of the world; others are often there to do it for us.”