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It is in my own belief that higher forms of technology will end up being the sole distributor of information and that linear typographical information exchange will slowly dwindle down as time edges onward. In comparison, the amount of information exchanged through today’s textual media and the amount that people take in through some higher form of technology is mind boggling. People today can sit effortlessly on a couch with the television on channel nine and absorb all of the day's news in a short amount of time. In modern day society, 'time is money' and the TV is the alternative that most people chose. The question in focus is what will this change do to the people in our society? In looking at this from Postman’s view the print based culture was one consisting of people who were very intelligent, mainly the literate ones. He shows this claim through the description of lawyers in print a based culture. "In a print-based culture, lawyers tented to be well educated, devoted to reason, and capable of impressive expositional argument"(Postman 56). Here I will concur that people in print cultures, whether lawyers or not, might have come across as being more intelligent because t
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Approximate Word count = 879
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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