In both the video and the book Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman talks about how people are changing in society. For instance it is becoming normal to talk to inanimate objects, such as an answering machine. He said in the future we would be talking to doorknobs and toasters, and that would be considered totally normal. In Postman’s book he says “moment to moment, it turns out, is not God’s conception, or nature’s. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created.” He is talking about how society is focused on technology and is talking to it and it has become natural and a part of our daily lives.
Postman also talks about how people are “shifting from the magic of writing to the magic of electronics” (page 13). People these days are changing from the enjoyment of reading to just watching television. Even though people relied on readings in the past people today want more technology to do things for themselves, making us lazy. This is because people are used to the technology and are always ready for the newest thing on the market.
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