The Peek-a-Boo World

I liked Neil Postman's article very much, and I also agree with his article. In the beginning of the article, he started talking about how technology has changed our culture, his first example given was the telegraph. "The telegraph made information a comoodity, a "thing" that could be bought and sold irrespective of its uses or meaning." I liked this quote, this quote is quite representative of how information is used today, people take information in today, regardless of its meaning, and regardless if it has any effect on them at all. He elaborated on more forms of media, and how they elevated the irrelevance to the status of news.
In my opinion, this is how the world is today. With the increased use of the internet, and other media forms, the news is filled with useless things that that do not effect the us at all. My favorite quote of the article came on the fourth page, "...have made the country into "one neighborhood," but it was a peculiar one, populated by strangers who knew nothing but the most superficial facts about each other."
Now, we take information through various forms of media, and the one that has had the most impact is the television. Postman talks about the television quite a bit in his article, and speaks of how the television has impacted our world. He says that television is, "an instrument that directs not only our knowledge of the word, but our knowledge of ways of knowing as well." A great quote. The television impacts us in a way that people cannot notice, we are affected without realizing it, we rarely talk about television, yet we talk all the time of the content of the television, and it is just assumed that people watch television, in this sense, television IS our culture!