“Worry: Children should run in the sun and the wind instead of being glued to a keyboard. Answer: Yes. But if you take this argument too literally you won’t let them read or play music and certainly won’t let them watch moves or television. Or dream.”
Seymour Papert, 1996
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“The ethos encapsulating the values and technologies of Western civilization, is seriously endangering stable social existence on this planet... ending in... social dislocations so severe that they will threaten the continuation... of human life, on the surface of the planet.”
Kirkpatrick Sale, 1995
“Over a period of months, I fell into the habit of spending an hour or two every day gazing in fascination at this window into a community that was creating itself right in front of my eyes.”
Howard Rheingold, 1993
“The Digital Revolution is whipping through our lives like a Bengali typhoon.”
Louis Rossetto, 1992
“Technologically oriented viewers embrace... the computer, as almost an extension of their own cognitive apparatus.”
Henry Jenkins, 1992
“Computer technology functions more as a new mode of transportation than as a new means of substantive communication.”
Neil Postman, 1992
“The language of science is the language of entertainment.”
Stewart Brand, 1987
“Terrors of the Telephone.”
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