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| 6b945d3 | Terrence Moran, "yapisi geregi imaji ve parcayi guclendirmeye yatkin olan medyayla tarihsel bir perspektif edinemeyiz" derken tam hedefi vurmaktadir. Moran'a gore kalicilik ve bir baglam olmayinca "elde bulunan bilgi parcalari mantikli ve tutarli bir butun olusturacak sekilde birlestirilemez." Hatirlamayi reddetmedigimiz gibi, hatirlamayi tamamen yararsiz buluyor da degiliz. Onun yerine, hatirlamaya uygun varliklar olmaktan cikariliyoruz. C.. | Neil Postman | ||
| ed8425f | The television commercial is about products only in the sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales, | Neil Postman | ||
| 33bdd16 | With the rise of Technopoly, one of those thought-worlds disappears. Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World. It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant. And it does so by redefining what we mean by religion, by art, by family, by politics, by history, by truth, by priv.. | Neil Postman | ||
| b8c86a6 | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, print put forward a definition of intelligence that gave priority to the objective, rational use of the mind and at the same time encouraged forms of public discourse with serious, logically ordered content. It is no accident that the Age of Reason was coexistent with that growth of a print culture, first in Europe and then in America. | intelligence print public-discourse rational-thought | Neil Postman | |
| c3010ee | Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological. I mean "ecological" in the same sense as the word is used by environmental scientists. One significant change generates total change. If you remove the caterpillars from a given habitat, you are not left with the same environment minus caterpillars: you have a new environment, and you have reconstituted the conditions of survival; the same is true if you add caterpi.. | Neil Postman | ||
| acffbd6 | The modern idea of testing a reader's "comprehension," as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an absurdity in 1790 or 1830 or 1860. What else was reading but comprehending?" | reading | Neil Postman | |
| 41ca505 | Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which is to keep the viewers watching so that they will be exposed to the commercials | television | Neil Postman | |
| 94236c7 | the world we live in is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact, whether actual or imagined, that will surprise us for very long, since we have no comprehensive and consistent picture of the world that would make the fact appear as an unacceptable contradiction. We believe because there is no reason not to believe. | Neil Postman | ||
| fc55b86 | Naturally, bureaucrats can be expected to embrace a technology that helps to create the illusion that decisions are not under their control. Because of its seeming intelligence and impartiality, a computer has an almost magical tendency to direct attention away from the people in charge of bureaucratic functions and toward itself, as if the computer were the true source of authority. A bureaucrat armed with a computer is the unacknowledged .. | Neil Postman | ||
| 3955947 | Technopoly is to say that its information immune system is inoperable. Technopoly is a form of cultural AIDS, which I here use as an acronym for Anti-Information Deficiency Syndrome. This is why it is possible to say almost anything without contradiction provided you begin your utterance with the words "A study has shown ..." or "Scientists now tell us that ..." More important, it is why in a Technopoly there can be no transcendent sense of.. | Neil Postman | ||
| 4df6677 | Until, years from now, when it will be noticed that the massive collection and speed-of-light retrieval of data have been of great value to large-scale organizations but have solved very little of importance to most people and have created at least as many problems for them as they may have solved. In | Neil Postman | ||
| ae06fb7 | In a print-culture, we are apt to say of people who are not intelligent that we must "draw them pictures" so that they may understand. Intelligence implies that one can dwell comfortably without pictures, in a field of concepts and generalizations." | Neil Postman | ||
| 0e7c7e4 | Alfred North Whitehead summed it up best when he remarked that the greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the idea of invention itself. We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention suc.. | Neil Postman | ||
| e27b0f9 | War demanded valour even in pilfering. | Jaroslav Hašek | ||
| 5c301eb | Austria's victory crawled out of her latrines. | Jaroslav Hašek | ||
| 8fa5bdc | Classically, the ability to invent and execute plans was believed to be limited to only three species: chimpanzees, gorillas, and human beings. Now | Michael Crichton | ||
| b2ebf54 | A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there.... And at the end of your life, your whole existence has that same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day." "I guess it's one way to look at things," Grant said. "No," Malcolm said. "It's the only way to look at things. At least, the only way that is true to reality. You .. | Michael Crichton | ||
| c8d6da8 | These animals are genetically engineered to be unable to survive in the real world. They can only live here in Jurassic Park. They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners. | jurassic-park science-fiction | Michael Crichton | |
| 1b2dc35 | You want a university appointment?" "Yes." "That's a mistake," Hammond said briskly. "At least, if you respect your talent." Wu had blinked. "Why?" "Because, let's face facts," Hammond said. "Universities are no longer the intellectual centers of the country. The very idea is preposterous. Universities are the backwater. Don't look so surprised." | Michael Crichton | ||
| d3ca1e7 | Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way." Malcolm" | Michael Crichton | ||
| 833a028 | About all we can hope to do is blow them apart. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 2e21ebc | Life will find its way | Michael Crichton | ||
| dee1e0f | Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way." Malcolm" | Michael Crichton | ||
| 31fe12c | The biggest cause of environmental destruction is poverty. Starving people can't worry about pollution. They worry about food. Half | Michael Crichton | ||
| 48c526c | What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world." ALBERT EINSTEIN" | Michael Crichton | ||
| 596abf1 | Eugenics research was funded by the Carnegie Foundation, and later by the Rockefeller Foundation. The | Michael Crichton | ||
| f6bb747 | All the deep-diving studies show that women are superior for submerged operations. They're physically smaller and consume less nutrients and air, they have better social skills and tolerate close quarters better, and they are physiologically tougher and have better endurance. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 07441c1 | based on UN statistics, is that before the DDT ban, malaria had become almost a minor illness. Fifty thousand deaths a year worldwide. A few years later, it was once again a global scourge. Fifty million people have died since the ban, | Michael Crichton | ||
| 85f139c | Yet I have discovered that if all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief... | Michael Crichton | ||
| 9c31022 | it was "the hardest damn thing I ever did in my life. I don't care how many feathers a man wears in his hair, he's still a man. One of them, Red Legs, looked at me and said 'do you think this is fair? Would you sign such a paper?' and I could not meet his eyes. It made me sick." | Michael Crichton | ||
| 5c29383 | We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 41b5c2a | In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity--our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 99de281 | She had discovered long ago that you could use a computer without understanding how it worked. Just as you could use an automobile, vacuum cleaner - or your own brain. | Michael Crichton | ||
| f46a1a6 | And in that moment, their situation was clear to him. Their guides were both dead. One machine was gone. Their return marker was shattered. Which meant they were stuck in this place. Trapped here, without guides or assistance. And with no prospect of ever getting back. Not ever. | Michael Crichton | ||
| a1d1908 | En cierto sentido, no estamos integrados mas que por recuerdos. Nuestra personalidad se estructura a partir de recuerdos, nuestra vida esta organizada en torno a recuerdos, nuestras culturas se erigen sobre los cimientos de los recuerdos compartidos, a los que denominamos "historia" y "ciencia". Y desistir de un recuerdo, desistir del conocimiento, desistir de los pasado no es facil." | Michael Crichton | ||
| 17b0679 | In any case, this was a deep human prejudice. Human beings to find a central command in any organization. States had governments. Corporations had CEOs. Schools had principals. Armies had generals. Human beings tended to believe that without central command, chaos would overwhelm the organization and nothing significant could be accomplished. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 46bc36f | You have done the work of a mere man," the tengol continued, "and not a proper hero. A hero does what no man dares to undertake." | Michael Crichton | ||
| 6b7599b | There are no pirates in Port Royal | Michael Crichton | ||
| 7058d67 | Hammond shook his head sadly. "Yet, you'll remember," he said, "the original genetic engineering companies, like Genentech and Cetus, were all started to make pharmaceuticals. New drugs for mankind. Noble, noble purpose. Unfortunately, drugs face all kinds of barriers. FDA testing alone takes five to eight years--if you're lucky. Even worse, there are forces at work in the marketplace. Suppose you make a miracle drug for cancer or heart dis.. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 06ad863 | The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet--or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 8abaca1 | You know what's wrong with scientific power?... It's a form of inherited wealth... Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual Guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to.. | experience hard-work life meaning-of-life responsibility science | Michael Crichton | |
| 6e7b34f | This wild animal must be different. By the way," he said, turning to Grant, "if they're all born females, how do they breed? You never explained that bit about the frog DNA." "It's not frog DNA," Grant said. "It's amphibian DNA. But the phenomenon happens to be particularly well documented in frogs. Especially West African frogs, if I remember." "What phenomenon is that?" "Gender transition," Grant said. "Actually, it's just plain changing .. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 613c55b | They have to leave their mark. They can't just watch. They can't just appreciate. They can't just fit into the natural order. They have to make something unnatural happen. That is the scientist's job, and now we have whole societies that try to be scientific... We've had four hundred years of modern science, and we ought to know by now what it's good for, and what it's not good for. It's time for a change. | gratitude science unintelligent | Michael Crichton | |
| 62f0a2b | Actualmente mucha gente piensa que vivimos en un mundo predeterminado que sigue un derrotero fijo y establecido. Las decisiones pasadas nos han legado la polucion, la despersonalizacion y la suciedad urbana; alguien decidio por nosotros y ahora nos enfrentamos a las consecuencias. | Michael Crichton |