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Language considerations figure prominently in general semantics, and three language and communications specialists who embraced general semantics, university professors and authors Hayakawa, Wendell Johnson and Neil Postman, played major roles in framing general semantics, especially for non-readers of Science and Sanity.
Neil Postman, founder of New York University's media ecology program in 1971, edited ETC.
* Crazy talk, stupid talk: how we defeat ourselves by the way we talk and what to do about it by Neil Postman, Delacorte Press, 1976.
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According to The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman, the Christian Church of the Middle Ages considered the age of accountability, when a person could be tried and even executed as an adult, to be age 7.
In his book Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk, Neil Postman states that " the key to all fanatical beliefs is that they are self-confirming ....( some beliefs are ) fanatical not because they are ' false ', but because they are expressed in such a way that they can never be shown to be false.
Neil Postman acknowledges the influence of People in Quandaries in his own excellent general semantics book Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk ( 1976, Delacorte, New York ):
In his collection of essays Technopoly Neil Postman demonstrates the argument against the use of writing through an excerpt from Plato's work Phaedrus ( Postman, Neil ( 1992 ) Technopoly, Vintage, New York, pp 73 ).
In this story, Theuth presents his new invention " writing " to King Thamus, telling Thamus that his new invention " will improve both the wisdom and memory of the Egyptians " ( Postman, Neil ( 1992 ) Technopoly, Vintage, New York, pp 74 ).
He argues that the written word will infect the Egyptian people with fake knowledge as they will be able to attain facts and stories from an external source and will no longer be forced to mentally retain large quantities of knowledge themselves ( Postman, Neil ( 1992 ) Technopoly, Vintage, New York, pp 74 ).
The term media ecology was first formally introduced by Neil Postman in 1968, while the concept of the theory was proposed by Marshall McLuhan in 1964.
Inspired by McLuhan, Neil Postman founded the Program in Media Ecology at New York University in 1971.
According to Neil Postman, Media ecology is concerned with understanding how technologies and techniques of communication control the form, quantity, speed, distribution, and direction of information ; and how, in turn, such informational configurations or biases affect people's perceptions, values, and attitudes.
Neil Postman ( March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003 ) was an American author, media theorist and cultural critic, who is best known by the general public for his 1985 book about television, Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Social critic Neil Postman has veered away from media and has shifted the focus back onto education.
* The Neil Postman Information Page
* Neil Postman: Collected Online Articles
* Neil Postman Writing on the Web
* Neil Postman, Defender of The Word by Lance Strate
Neil and 1931
* 1931 – Neil Adcock, South African Cricket player
* Neil R. Jones's Professor Jameson series ( 1931 – 1989 )
One source of inspiration for Asimov's robots was the Zoromes, a race of mechanical men that featured in a 1931 short story called " The Jameson Satellite ", by Neil R. Jones.
In the aftermath of World War I, the use of chemical weapons, particularly poison gas, was a major worry, and was often employed in the science fiction of this period, for example Neil Bell's The Gas War of 1940 ( 1931 ).
The shift to brand management began on May 13, 1931, with an internal memorandum from Neil McElroy ( 1904 – 1972 ), an athletic young man who had come to P & G in 1925 right after his graduation from Harvard College.
The concept of launching remains into space using conventional rockets was proposed by the science fiction author Neil R. Jones in the novella " The Jameson Satellite " published in the pulp magazine " Amazing Stories " in 1931.
The short stories which Neil Munro first published in the Glasgow Evening News in 1905 appeared in the newspaper over twenty years and achieved widespread fame, with collections issued in book form from 1931 still in print today.
* Precious Porcelain ( 1931 ) as Neil Bell
* Valiant Clay ( 1931 ) also as The Gas War Of 1940, as Miles, then Neil Bell
* Life and Andrew Otway ( 1931 ) as Neil Bell
Neil Archibald Primrose, 7th Earl of Rosebery ( born 11 February 1929 ), styled Lord Primrose between 1931 and 1974, is a Scottish nobleman.
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* 1983 – Neil Harvey, English-Barbadian footballer
* 1961 – Neil Mallender, England cricketer
Mackenzie married Helen Neil ( 1826 – 1852 ) in 1845 and with her had three children, with only one girl surviving infancy.
* 1953 – J. Neil Schulman, American writer
* 1987 – Neil Haskell, American dancer
* 1984 – Neil Dexter, South African cricketer
* 1986 – Neil Cicierega, American animator, actor, director, and producer
* 1981 – Dennis Joseph O ' Neil, Korean-American actor
* 1925 – Louis O ' Neil, Canadian professor and politician
* 1987 – April O ' Neil, American porn actress
* Neil Hannon ( 1970 – ), musician
* Neil Young – Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Vibes, Vocals
* 1944 – Neil Innes, English singer and songwriter ( Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles )
* Neil Taylor – drums
* 1934 – Neil Davis, Australian cameraman ( d. 1985 )
* 1948 – Neil Harvey becomes the youngest Australian to score a century in Test cricket.
* 1990 – Neil Etheridge, English / Filipino footballer
* 1982 – Neil Robertson, Australian snooker player
* 1930 – Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel laureate
* 1996 – Officer of the Order of Canada, along with band mates Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart
* 1982 – Neil Nitin Mukesh, Indian actor
* 1954 – Neil Oatley, English engineer and designer
* 1954 – Neil Tennant, English singer-songwriter and musician ( Pet Shop Boys and Electronic )
* 1927 – Neil Simon, American playwright
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