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 then
             the ratio of literate to illiterates was significantly different. This has no effect on the fact that people in a multimedia culture are less intelligent because of the fact that reading is less of a predominant way of taking in information. It is true that we are influenced every day with loads of useless information broadcasted from higher forms of technology. "We need not worry about people's being swamped by useless information. They will pick out what is germane to their needs."(Lauhan 242). People of high intellect will and should be able to decipher the useful information from the useless garbage brought by technology. It would be futile to say that someone living in
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