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Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Quotes: In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.
         

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.


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