> "And so we had in the sort of what Neil Postman would have called the lexicographic culture, the sort of pre-TV, pre-internet, newspaper, book driven culture. This medium had a different psychosocial relationship with us than these modern mediums. So I could read the world news and think like in the broad world out there, there's things that are happening and it didn't feel as like personally salient."
[[Neil Postman]] might prove to be among the most prophetic thinkers of the 20th century.
[From Deep Questions with Cal Newport: Ep. 333]