Too much of a good thing When we look at our world today we are constantly surrounded by information technology; more specifically digital media. The "buzzes" and bings" which we have all become accustom to are constantly bringing us new information, most of which clouds our minds and takes our attention away from the problems that occur in our real everyday lives. Neil Postman makes a similar observation in his speech "Informing Ourselves to Death". In which he speaks about how much technology, specifically the computer, is leading to an excess of information in our day to day lives. You can see this when he says "The tie between information and action has been severed. Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used …show more content…
When this idea of written information that could be spread to the masses was invented it had honorable intentions, to spread God's word to the world. "Gutenberg thought his invention would advance the cause of the Catholic Church, whereas in fact, it turned out to bring a revolution which destroyed the monopoly of the church." We can see this same idea materializing its self as the internet in the modern day. This powerful resource began as a way for brilliant scientists to communicate back and forth with more speed and ease. Thus, clearing confusion and advancing the case of science. But, the World Wide Web has ended up clouding our minds and taking the focus off of the world right in front of us. This confusion has had so much of an effect on us that we are not able to differentiate between information that is relevant, and information that is irrelevant to our lives. Mr. Postman demonstrates this through an experiment in which he makes a seemingly unbelievable claim about a made-up study that was done by a presages institution. He finds that "the average person today is about as naive as was the average person in the middle Ages. In the Middle Ages people believed in the authority of their religion, no matter what. Today, we believe in the authority of our science, no matter what. "Through this study Mr. Postman is able to show us that even though we may believe most of