Television did it. It remains an enormously powerful medium. It brings human beings — their eyes and faces and thought patterns and personal effects — into your very living room. It shakes up existing feelings. It floods the frontal cortex not with policy but with personality. Whether I always agree with him or not does […]
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Same as it ever was
by Derek Morrison, 21 March 2010 In my No Country for Old Readers? (Auricle, 28 February 2010) I highlighted those who have reminded us that each generation tends to become convinced that the minds and behaviours of their young are being eroded by the technologies of the day. But our digital world is different. Right? […]