Neil Postman - 6 Questions for Understanding Media #COM641

Found this video today and it is awesome.

http://www.blip.tv/file/4065269


Question #1 What is the problem to which this technology is a solution?
Question #2 Whose problem is it?
Question #3 Suppose we solve this problem and solve it dicicively, what new problems might be created because we have solved the problem?
Question #4 Which people and what institutions might be most seriously harmed by a technological solution?
Question #5 What changes in language are being enforced by new technologies and what is being gained and lsot by such changes?
Question #6 What sort of people and institutions acquire special economic and political power because of technological change?

At the end of this course, I will use this blog posting again, in which I will attempt to answer the above six questions.