> Of all the disciplines that might be included in the curriculum, semantics is certainly among the most “basic.” Because it deals with the processes by which we make and interpret meaning, it has great potential to affect the deepest levels of student intelligence. And yet semantics is rarely mentioned when “back to the basics” is proposed. Why? My guess is that it cuts too deep...

#NeilPostman #Technopoly on #Semantics #Meaning

> Why blame people? We may call this line of thinking an “agentic shift,” a term.. from #StanleyMilgram to name the process whereby humans transfer responsibility for an outcome from themselves to a more abstract agent. When this happens, we have relinquished control, which in the case of #TheComputer [#AI] means that we may, without excessive remorse, pursue ill-advised or even #InhumanGoals because the computer can accomplish them or be imagined to accomplish them.
#NeilPostman #Technopoly

> Idea 1: Culture always pays a price for technology.
Idea 2: There are always winners and losers in technological change.
Idea 3: Every technology has a philosophy: “The medium is the message.”
Idea 4: Technological change is not additive; it is ecological.
Idea 5: Media tend to become mythic.
#NeilPostman #Technopoly?
I found this link while looking into the book, PLAI: _Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation_.From the book's site to https://lukc1024.github.io/

> 教皇は、こうした学問の世界からの訴えも受け止めながら、エコロジー危機の根源を、技術至上主義や極端な人間中心主義に同定し、人格的尊厳を損なう実践的相対主義に警鐘を鳴らしています。
> #技術至上主義 （ #technocracy）という言葉が何度も出てきます。技術が支配原理になるということです。今の時代、私たちは技術を中核にした #イデオロギー の中に生きさせられています。技術そのものが悪いわけではありませんが、技術の持っている支配力はとても大きいので、人間の権力と容易に繋がってしまい、権力を持っている人が、技術の力を使ってますます権力の座に居座り続けるということが起こります。#エコロジー危機 は技術至上主義と深く関連しているのです。
#Technopoly #技術vs人間 #教皇フランシスコ #ラウダトシ

> Whether or not it draws on new scientific research, technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science.
> それが新しい科学の研究を身につけているにしろ、 いないにしろ、 技術は倫理学の一部門えあって、 科学の一部門えはない。

#NeilPostman in #Technopoly quotes #PaulGoodman's #NewReformation
#ニールポストマン #技術vs人間 #ポールグッドマン #新しい改革

> ... villagers who came to meet #Kurdukar in Kevadia Colony ... had accepted resettlement in #gujarat only on paper... government records took priority over... reality... A #tribal person who does not defer to these records is called an illiterate … what do you call a judge who disregards the people in favor of the records?
https://signalsinthefog.wordpress.com/2000/11/11/peoples-knowledge-in-the-paperless-society/
#Aravinda writes of a #judge of #dams turned #bureucrat by #NeilPostman 's #definition #bureaucracy in the book #technopoly , #DavidGraeber

> Richards divided the class into three groups. Each group was asked to write a paragraph describing language. However, Richards provided each group with its first sentence.
Group A had to begin with “Language is like a tree”;
Group B with
“Language is like a river”;
Group C with “
Language is like a building.”... Our discussion centered on how metaphors control what we say, and to what extent what we say controls what we see. #NeilPostman #Technopoly with #IaRichards on #metaphor #language

> ... the purposive aspect of definitions. We want to do something and a definition is a means of doing it. If we want certain results, then we must use certain...definitions... But no definition has any authority apart from a purpose, or to bar us from other purposes. And yet they endlessly do so... we are often deprived of very useful thoughts merely because the words which might express them are being temporarily preempted by other meanings? #iarichards quoted by #NeilPostman in #Technopoly

> ... a #bureaucrat is little else than a glorified counter. The French word bureau first meant a cloth for covering a reckoning table, then the table itself, then the room in which the table was kept, and finally the office and staff that ran the entire counting room or house... the word... has come to mean a person who by training, commitment, and even temperament is indifferent to both the content and the totality of a human problem. #NeilPostman in #Technopoly on #richguy #bureaucracy #dams

> ... #bureaucracy is simply a coordinated series of techniques for reducing the amount of information that requires processing.... the standardized form... allows for the “destruction” of every nuance and detail of a situation.. the standardized form admits only a limited range of formal, objective, and impersonal information, which in some cases is precisely what is needed to solve a particular problem.
- #NeilPostman in #Technopoly telling of #JamesBeniger 's #TheControlRevolution

> Free human dialogue, wandering wherever the agility of the mind allows... [is] the heart of education. If teachers do not have the time, the incentive, or the wit to provide... if students are too demoralized, bored or distracted to muster the attention... needed... that is the educational problem which has to be solved... from inside the experience of the teachers and the students.
- #TheodoreRoszak about #Education in #TheCultOfInformation quoted by #NeilPostman in #Technopoly #Roszak

'[T]he social order has rushed ever faster toward a complete and uncritical embrace of the prescriptive, manipulatory technologies deceitfully presented to us as Liberation and Empowerment. So what next?'

From Tech Critique to Ways of Living — The New Atlantis
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/from-tech-critique-to-ways-of-living

#technopoly #standardcritiqueoftechnology #technology #ethicalliving #aboringdystopia #dystopia #newatlantis #techcritique