I forget, get Neil Postman's books, Amusing Ourselves to Death , and Technopoly .
Technologies serve worldviews, inescapably so.
Christians as a group have been far too na ve in approaching issues of technology, generally welcoming them as neutral. We need to know in what ways it is altering our conception of learning, and how, in conjunction with television, it undermines the old idea of school. TV demands them. TV is not an instructional medium so much as it is an entertainment medium. No matter how much education might be packed into any given show, to keep people coming back, this essentially boring medium must be made inviting, must titillate and seduce, must provide ever-wilder images, sounds, thrills and chills to keep an audience.