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'We aren't primarily ruled by politicians, theologians or the military. We're ruled by technology . . . Postman's warnings about how technology shapes us are as relevant as they ever were.' THE TIMES What happens when media and politics become just another form of entertainment? First published in 1985, Neil Postman's groundbreaking polemic about the effects of television on our politics and public discourse has become a modern classic. With the rise of the infinite scroll, collapsing attention spans, dwindling literacy rates and the outsourcing of our cognitive abilities to AI, his ideas seem more prescient than ever. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands to what we now call the attention economy. With a brand-new foreword written by Jonathan Haidt, it is the definitive examination of how we are abandoning our ability to reason in the name of entertainment. 'A prophet of the new information era . . . When you read this book, you have to keep reminding yourself that he's talking about television and Reagan, not the internet and Trump' OBSERVER 'The world is choking on screens. Just as this book foretold.' WASHINGTON POST
For the last third of the twentieth century, Neil Postman was one of America's foremost social critics and education and communications theorists, and his ideas and accessibility won him an international following. An influential and revered teacher, he was a professor for more than forty years at New York University, where he founded the renowned Media Ecology program. Blessed with an unusually far-reaching mind, he authored more than twenty books, producing major works on education, childhood, language, news, and technology's impact on culture. Amusing Ourselves to Death remains his most reverberating and widely read book, translated into more than a dozen languages. He was educated at the State University of New York at Fredonia and Columbia University. He died in October 2003 at the age of seventy-two.
