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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
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Coleridge’s famous line about water everywhere without a drop to drink may serve as a metaphor of a decontextualized information environment: In a sea of information, there was very little of it to use.
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