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College Lecture Series - Neil Postman - "The Surrender of Culture to Technology"
College of DuPage
Neil Postman's 1997 lecture at College of DuPage, based on his book, argues that Americans treat technology as a national religion and depend on it to solve larger human problems. It includes audience questions.
HN recommends it to engineers as a skeptical counterweight to technology boosterism, especially for those building AI and consumer tech features.
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