On Facebook, Steve Silberman shared this amazingly prescient prediction of our future-present by Neil Postman, from Postman's 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death:
[H/t Steve Silberman]
Image: Inset cover art from Amusing Ourselves to Death
Amusing ourselves to death, a spot-on future prediction from 1985
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