Ledes, Nutgraphs, Arguments & Process.

“Am I using this technology, or is it using me?” Charlene Hunter Gault interviews media theorist and cultural critic Neil Postman on PBS’ The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour in 1995. Postman discusses new media and the “Faustian bargain” of technological change in the context of the “Information Superhighway” and the Internet.

I’m no Internet and technology worry wart. New technology has impact. What Postman talks about here is a conversation we’re still having today, 16 years later.