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Quotes from The Disappearance of Childhood — Neil Postman

1931–2003 United States

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The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.

The Disappearance of Childhood (1982)

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category.

The Disappearance of Childhood (1982)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Neil Postman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.