Neil Postman (1931-2003)

                           Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman (1985)

 Neil Postman was a great educator. He was born in 8 March, 1931. He was an American author, media theorist and cultural critic. He is best known by the general public for his 1985 book about television, Amusing Ourselves to Death. He was also a humanist who thought that new technology can never substitute for human values. He was born and most of life he spent in New York City. Postman wrote 18 books and more than 200 magazines.

He distinguishes the Orwellian vision of the future. Postman thinks that television images replace the words. They are confusing the people such as reality shows and even news they are not telling the truth. Moreover, we spend more time on television and computer. People control by inflicting pleasure. He also commented on the presentation of the media in terms of shows and other stuff. He refers the relationship between information and human responses.

In my views, this video is quite interesting in terms of new world because this is totally true we are going to addict for media. We use Face book, mobiles and lots of other technology. Now in these days media is not providing the information. They are busy to earn T.R.P of the shows so they can make money from these shows.

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