Summary: Amusing Ourselves to Death

October 16, 2016

Lessons

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The medium you consuming information through dramatically affects what you receive, and in fact the quality of what you can receive
Text and print are far superior to radio, for example, and radio was far superior to television.
He’d probably argue that TV is better than Internet, since it’s even shorter lived
He’s a big fan of the Orwell vs. Huxley debate, and says Huxley is definitely winning because of TV in particular
He fundamentally believe that we must monitor how we consume information because it alters what we’re able to consume
He believes TV and other short-term media like it limit the sophistication of the ideas they can transmit, and worries that we are losing our culture due to these becoming most common