Neil Postman, speech at NewTech '98

Neil Postman, a rare record.
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NewTech ’98 in Denver, Colorado, March 17, 1998

"This spring marks the twentieth anniversary of NewTech98. Officially the “International Conference on New Technologies and the Human Person: Communicating the Faith in the New Millennium,” Newtech98 was sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and the Archdiocese of Denver. It had one main achievement. It brought together in an unprecedented dialogue dozens of Church leaders from Latin America, North America, Europe, and the Vatican, and senior executives from Adobe Systems, Microsoft, IBM, and other tech innovators. Media scholars and journalists also took part.

Amid the meeting’s praise for all things techno, two men raised concerns. The first was Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger of Paris, who spoke of technology’s subversive effect on human identity and self-understanding. The second was Neil Postman, author of Amusing Ourselves to Death and Technopoly. Postman gave the most arresting talk of the three-day event."

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