NNT spoke earlier this year at the Goldstone Forum at the University of PA.The video lecture is here.
(This is the first publicly available NNT talk in some time. I’m going to leave it on the front page for a week or so.)
Modern techs not all harmful: that some have been canceling some of the perverse effect of 1900-2000 techs: isolation & passivity in front of TV set, dictatorship of NYT, junk food, centralization, academic dominance, bureaucrats & red tape, NYRB, cars-suburbs, etc.
(Cont- the disease of modernity: master the pennies; fallacies of misplaced precision across domains; classics did the exact opposite)
A technofool is someone who carries the most precise watch ever built and manages to be late for appointments.(Modernism)
We have the illusion that people have conversations in order to communicate ideas; they communicate ideas in order to have conversations.