...computer technology functions more as a new mode of transportation than as a new means of substantive communication. It moves information-lots of it, fast, and mostly in a calculating mode. The computer, in fact, makes possible the fulfillment of Descartes' dream of the mathematization of the world. Computers make it easy to convert facts into statistics and to translate problems into equations. And whereas this can be useful {as when the process reveals a pattern that would otherwise go unnoticed}, it is diversionary and dangerous when applied indiscriminately to human affairs.
( Neil Postman )
[ Technopoly: The Surrender of ]
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