The Difference Between a Technology and a Medium

And how this informs our relationship with the social internet.

If you’ve been a reader of this newsletter for any amount of time, you know Dr. Neil Postman is important to me, particularly his work Amusing Ourselves to Death, as it is even more relevant today than it was when it was written in 1985. I love finding interviews and lectures from Dr. Postman from the late 90s (he died in 2003), because he, naturally, b…