"There's something really macabre about insinuating subject matter experts know less than a fucking machine." - May 15, 2025 #msfponl

#NeilPostmanWasRight1992 #EternalSeptember

“We have devalued the singular human capacity to see things whole in all their psychic, emotional and moral dimensions, and we have replaced this with faith in the powers of technical calculation.”
#NeilPostman , Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992

#msfkmmn

"Because of its seeming intelligence and impartiality, a computer has an almost magical tendency to direct attention away from the people in charge of bureaucratic functions and toward itself, as if the computer were the true source of authority. A bureaucrat armed with a computer is the unacknowledged legislator of our age, and a terrible burden to bear.”
― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992

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"There's something really macabre about insinuating subject matter experts know less than a fucking machine." - May 15, 2025 #msfponl

#NeilPostmanWasRight1992 #EternalSeptember

“We have devalued the singular human capacity to see things whole in all their psychic, emotional and moral dimensions, and we have replaced this with faith in the powers of technical calculation.”
#NeilPostman , Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992

#msfkmmn

"Because of its seeming intelligence and impartiality, a computer has an almost magical tendency to direct attention away from the people in charge of bureaucratic functions and toward itself, as if the computer were the true source of authority. A bureaucrat armed with a computer is the unacknowledged legislator of our age, and a terrible burden to bear.”
― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992