Neil Postman
Neil Postman Postman at the Miami Book Fair International, 1999 Born (1931-03-08)March 8, 1931 New York City Died October 5, 2003(2003-10-05) (aged 72) New York City Occupation Writer, professor Spouse(s) Shelley Ross 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. For more than forty years, he was associated with New York University. Postman was a humanist, who believed that "new technology can never substitute for human values".