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Hello Gnusers,

I open this discussion with the following quote from "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology",
by Neil Postman.

	"Let us take as an example the case of television. In the United States, where television
	has taken hold more deeply than anywhere else, many people find it a blessing, not least
	those who have achieved high-paying, gratifying careers in television as executives,
	technicians, newscasters, and entertainers. It should surprise no one that such people,
	forming as they do a new knowledge monopoly, should cheer themselves and defend and
	promote television technology. On the other hand and in the long run, television may bring
	aa gradual end to the careers of schoolteachers, since school was an invention of the
	printing press and must stand or fall on the issue of how much importance the printed word
	has. For four hundred years, schoolteachers have been part of the knowldege monopoly
	created by printing, and they are now witnessing the breakup of that monopoly.  It appears
	that there is little they can do to prevent that breakup, but surely there is something perverse
	about schoolteachers' being enthusiastic about what is happening..."

I invite all Canadian tv gnusers to respond: where are we going?  what sort of future do we want?

And what are our responsibilities?


Mark Schneider,
a television worker for CTV news