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In Aldous Huxley’s popular novel, Brave New World, the future is shaped by control, illusion, and the erosion of individual ...
Columnist Barth Keck says he's been teaching "Media Literacy" for 30 years, and his inspiration for creating the class was "Amusing Ourselves to Death," a book written in 1985 by the late Neil Postman ...
Big Brother watched. Soma numbed. Our smartphones do both. What can Orwell and Huxley teach us about reclaiming digital ...
People will come to…adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think,” author Neil Postman wrote, interpreting ...
It’s fitting that this story should be told on Bicycle Day, the annual commemoration of April 19, 1943, when Swiss chemist ...
President Trump is going God one better. God told Adam and Eve to start having children. The president is considering adding an incentive — paying couples $5,000 to begat. The fertility rate in the U.