User:Dcm829/Neil Postman

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(edit: sentence structure and addition) Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed technology, including personal computers in school and cruise control in cars, and is best known for twenty books regarding technology and education, including Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Conscientious Objections (1988), Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992), The Disappearance of Childhood (1994), and The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (1995).

Works
(edit: sentence structure) Postman wrote 20 books and more than 200 magazine and newspaper articles published in for such periodicals as The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, Time, Saturday Review, Harvard Educational Review, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Stern, and Le Monde.

(edit: create new paragraph from existing and edit) Postman never owned a computer or typewriter, and wrote exclusively in longhand. Despite his oft-quoted concerns about television, computers, and the role of technology in society, Postman used the medium of television to advance his ideas and sat for many television interviews. Later in life, Postman even had cable television in his home.

(add to end of section) Several of Postman's articles were reprinted after his death in the quarterly journal, ETC.: A Review of General Semantics as part of a 75th Anniversary Edition in October 2013.

Biography
(edit: sentence structure and addition) In 1953, he graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia and enlisted in the military but was released less than five months later.

(edit: sentence structure and addition) At age 72, Postman died of lung cancer at a hospital in Flushing, Queens, on October 5, 2003. At the time of his death, Postman had been married to his wife, Shelley Ross Postman, for 48 years. They had three children. Postman is buried in Cedar Park Cemetery, Paramus, NJ where his headstone reads "Beloved Husband, Father Grandfather, Brother and Teacher."