Surprised the article didn't mention Neil Postman, especially Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change (1998): > The first idea is that all techn

Surprised the article didn't mention Neil Postman, especially Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change (1998): > The first idea is that all technological change is a trade-off. > This leads to the second idea, which is that the advantages and disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the population. > The third idea, then, is that every technology has a philosophy which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in what it makes us do with our bodies, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards. > Here is the fourth idea: Technological change is not additive; it is ecological. ...A new medium does not add something; it changes everything. > I come now to the fifth and final idea, which is that media tend to become mythic. ...[Using] the word "myth" to refer to a common tendency to think of our technological creations as if they were God-given, as if they were a part of the natural order of things. https://student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492/papers/neil-postman--five-things.html https://student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492/papers/neil-postman--...