Neil Postman warned us that television was not much use for education, that it conveyed entertainment efficiently, but would inherently fail at enlightenment. Marvin Minsky once had an even scarier ...

Neil Postman, a prolific and influential social critic and educator best known for his warning that an era of mass communications is stunting the minds of children as well as adults died Sunday at a ...

In 1992, NYU professor Neil Postman wrote that the “uneasy tension” that once existed between “the technological and the traditional” was no more. The United States, he explained, had become a ...