No medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not important that those who ask the questions arrive at my answers or Marshall McLuhan’s (quite different answers, by the way). This is an instance in which the asking of the questions is sufficient. To ask is to break the spell.

Neil Postman, Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business (1986)

No more exceedingly relevant than in the present, although the title could be modified to, Public discourse in the age of technology and social media (2010), wherein most users are tremendously unaware of the dangers of the current mediums utilized for the expression of such discourse.

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Source: embody

Every day I discover at least one little thing that makes me go, “Why the fuck didn’t my PC ever do that?
Brad Feld, in his latest post on transitioning to the Mac platform.
After a decade of truly spectacular underachievement, what we need now is less management and more freedom -fewer individual automatons and more autonomous individuals.
Dan Pink