The information age - A blessing or a curse?

New York University Professor Neil Postman passed away October 5, 2003, at the age of seventy-two. A faculty member at NYU for forty-four years, Postman founded the School of Education's program in media ecology in 1971 and was chair of the Department of Culture and Communication until 2002. He was the author of more than two hundred articles and twenty books, including Teaching as a Subversive Activity, The Disappearance of Childhood, Amusing Ourselves to Death, and Technopoly. The following is an abbreviated transcript of Neil Postman's Brown Bag Luncheon talk given at the Shorenstein Center on February 7, 1995. Postman was the Shorenstein Center's Visiting Lombard Professor in the spring of 1991.