These are taken from a 1998 talk by Neil Postman, and recently featured in a recent Washington Post column, Is the Internet Evil?, by Christine Emba.
1. All technological change is a trade-off.
2. The advantages and disadvantages of a new technology are never distributed evenly.
3. Embedded in every technology is a philosophy.
4. Technological change is not additive; it is ecological.
5. When a technology becomes mythic, it is always dangerous because it is then accepted as it is, and is therefore not easily susceptible to modification or control.
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