An all-instant society (Postman)
May 25th, 2006 | Published in Community, Consumerism, Life, Quotes, Culture
[We have had a] rapid emergency of an all-instant society: instant therapy, instant religion, instant food, instant friends, even instant reading. Instancy is one of the main teachings of our present information environment. Constancy is one of the main teachings of civilization.
–Neil Postman, Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979), p. 76