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New World Notes - 7/12/2011 12:00-12:30 pm
This week on New World Notes: radio program #175, July 12:
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 2 (July 12) includes:
- the final two questions and Postman's remarks on the relationship of TV and religion;
- a news article on yet another spooky aspect of smart phones; and
- remarks by technology-law expert Jonathan Zittrain on the government's use of other "smart" wireless technology to spy on citizens (plus more bad news about the iPhone!).