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Sunday, August 11, 2013

Where does it stand?

Neil Postman's analysis of the change of our society from a typographical-based culture to an image-based culture is explained throughout the entire book, Amusing Ourselves to Death.  This alteration which has been driven for the last two hundred years by technology, every step of the way, concludes that it has completely affected and in many ways impaired how fast and accurately we gather and use our knowledge.  Postman makes clear that our whole time sense has changed.  How we perceive the world has changed.  Written language & speech is not as eloquent anymore.  As images have come forward as a primary means of communication, first in photography, and later in the form of film and television media, where does typography stand, is it COMPLETELY gone or still amongst us?
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  1. UnknownAugust 14, 2013 at 5:54 PM

    I believe that we still have typography in our world. Yes, technology has ALMOST taken over, but not completely. Books are still being written as well as newspapers with the daily news and whatnot. We are encouraged to read books, but most prefer to go on the computer, facebook, tumblr, other social websites, or just being on our phone. I for one, still enjoy reading books, but I do also go on my phone a lot. We can find anything we need or want on the internet, we can know the latest updates with the press of a button, but we still have books. We still have authors, and we still have readers. So, with this being said, typography is still amongst us.

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