Days [ ) Vault | Neil Postman, 1985

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Alfred Eisenstaedt Hugo Gernsback with his television goggles 1963

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Hugo Gernsback with his television goggles, 1963

“With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.”

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985

* Hugo Gernsback (1884 – 1967) was a Luxembourgish American editor and magazine publisher whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with the novelists Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, he is sometimes called “The Father of Science Fiction”.

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