Scholar YOU should know

Neil Postman considered himself a humanist, which means that he believes new technology can never substitute for human values.  Postman had a best known book titled, Amusing Ourselves to Death.  this bok was published in 1985 and discusses a historical narrative which deplores the decline of the communication medium as television images have replaced the written word. 

Quote by Neil Postman:
A new technology tends to favor some groups of people and harms other groups. School teachers, for example, will, in the long run, probably be made obsolete by television, as blacksmiths were made obsolete by the automobile, as balladeers were made obsolete by the printing press. Technological change, in other words, always results in winners and losers.

I used this quote because I feel that some of theses changes have been made and with new technology the old and original things are slowly dwindling.

Short Bio on Neil Postman and his contributions from Neil Postman's Website:
Neil Postman (1931 — 2003) was an American critic and educator. Postman received his B.S. from the State University of New York at Fredonia and his M.A. and Ed.D. from Columbia University. He was the Paulette Goddard Chair of Media Ecology at New York University and chair of the Department of Culture and Communication. His pedagogical and scholarly interests included media and education, as can be seen in many of his seventeen books, including Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Conscientious Objections (1988), Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992), and End of Education (1995). Postman died in 2003 of lung cancer.http://www.neilpostman.org/