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New World Notes - 7/5/2011 12:00-12:30 pm
This week on New World Notes: radio program #174, July 5:
The new "smart phones" such as Apple's iPhone have been revealed to be excellent devices for spying on the phones' owners. So this might be a good time to hear Dr. Neil Postman's celebrated and witty lecture, Technology and Society (1998).
Postman proposes six questions that society--and individuals--ought to consider before deciding to adopt any particular new technology.
Part 1 (July 5) includes some of Postman's introduction and his discussion of the first four questions.