A review by _bookmoth
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman

4.0

Amusing Ourselves to Death is both dated and topical. I liked his discussion on the rise of typography and the telegraph the most. He also gives an interesting take on television. However, one of his main arguments is that TV is not interactive. It does not offer an opportunity for discussion. In our technological age this is possible, yet his other comments on entertainment, fragmentation, and short-lived news. Also his view that Huxley's Brave New World was closer to our day and age than 1984 was insightful.

So, yes, the book is partly dated but also insightful for the 21st century.