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> John McCarthy admitted this much when he conceded that most Americans are TV watchers anyway and won't need a home information terminal to do research, and Ne
by s_kilk 9y ago
> John McCarthy admitted this much when he conceded that most Americans are TV watchers anyway and won't need a home information terminal to do research, and Neil Postman wrote about the negative effects of television in his 1984 book, "Amusing Ourselves to Death".
Zooming out just a little, Guy Debord's "Society Of The Spectacle" talks about this same stuff on a higher level.
- etplayer 9y agoIt's important to note though that he wasn't only talking about TV and mass media, as people frequently attempted to interpret hials book.