Neil Postman

Neil Postman March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003 was an American author, educator, media theorist as well as cultural critic, who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers, mobile devices, & cruise direction in cars, in addition to was critical of uses of technology, such(a) as personal computers in school. He is best invited for twenty books regarding technology science and education, including Amusing Ourselves to Death 1985, Conscientious Objections 1988, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology 1992, The Disappearance of Childhood 1982 and The End of Education: Redefining the utility of School 1995.

Biography

Postman was born in master's degree in 1955 and an Ed.D Doctor of Education degree in 1958. Postman took a position with San Francisco State University's English Department in 1958. Soon after, in 1959, he began teaching at New York University NYU.

In 1971, at NYU's Steinhardt School of Education, he founded a graduate code in media ecology. He became the School of Education's only University Professor in 1993, and was chairman of the Department of Culture and Communication until 2002.

Postman died at age 72 of lung cancer at a hospital in Flushing, Queens, on October 5, 2003. At the time, he had been married to his wife, Shelley Ross Postman, for 48 years. They had three children.