The speech that Dr. Postman gave at Calvin College relates to chapter one in the book "Amusing Ourselves To Death" by talking about metaphors by the past people. He says this because people are worrying about the 21st century and gives good advice from some quotes of metaphors from people. In "Amusing Ourselves To Death" the Neil Postman says "our media is in our metaphors and our metaphors create the content of our culture".
In Dr. Postman's speech he also talks about how we a merly talking to machines more than human beings these days. This relates to what is said in the book "Amusing Ourselves To Death" about how humans are busy with social networks as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc...He says according to another mans book "Being Digital" that we will soon be talking to a toaster or a doorknob and it will be just as comfortable as talking to an answering machine. This helps Postmans theory as that humans use the technolgy to much or used over an extent.
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