Neil Postman on Cyberspace

I just watched Neil Postman on Cyberspace on YouTube. He is talking about what Cyberspace is, and hearing what he said, it made things clearer for me. I still have problems with understanding the term “cyberspace”. Neil Postman explains it by saying it is a “metaphorical idea”, and goes on to saying it is “a place where your conciseness is located when you are using computer technology on the internet”. I have a better understanding of it now, when he also talked about other medias, like where your head is at when reading a book and so on. 

This clip is from 1995 so it may be outdated, but I found it very interesting. He talks about the problems in the 19 century, and how the new technology do not fix the world problems even though we now have technologies that makes us aware of what is happening in the world. I liked when he talked about him buying a car, and that the car had cruise control, and he wondered why this was needed, and the man replied something about, not needing to press the gas pedal. Where Postman says, he never saw that as a problem followed by: “Am I using this technology or it is using me?” Interesting take on technologies right there

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