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Amusing ourselves to death, a spot-on future prediction from 1985

2021-11-15 00:00:00

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
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