Neil Postmans holistic / hippie analogy: "Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological. If you take away the caterpillars from a given habitat, you are not simply left with the same environment minus the caterpillars. You have a totally new environment, with new condition for survival. The same is true if you add caterpillars. This is how the ecology of media works as well. A new technology doesn’t add or subtract something, it changes everything."
(from "Technopoly, The Surrender of Culture to Technology")
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