1984: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age Of Show Business, Neil Postman
1993: Tehnopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Neil Postman
1994: The Disappearance of Childhood, Neil Postman
2009: The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It, Jonathan Zittrain
2009: Simulation and Its Discontents, Sherry Turkle
2010: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr
2011: The Filter Bubble: How The New Personalized Web is Changing What We Read and How We Think, Eli Pariser
2011: The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, Evgeny Morozov
2016: Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, Cathy O’Neil
2021: 互聯網的幻滅,以及一些理想主義的對抗,李如一
2021: Your Computer is On Fire, edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, Kavita Philip
2022: 一個前廣告人的自白書,冬瓜
2022: Why The Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid, Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic
2024: Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture, Kyle Chayka
2024: End the Phone-based Childhood Now, Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic
Neil Postman 的三本是先驅,可以 retroactive 地看。從一九九四到二零零九年前後是互聯網烏托邦時期,亦稱古典互聯網。零九年——智能手機逐漸開始主流化——之後就是互聯網幻滅的開始,這張書單一定不全。
Haidt 在 The Atlantic 的幾篇未來大概是要整合出書的。他的斷代和我類似:二零一零年代和二零零零年代截然不同。
讀完這些應該能發現 Neil Postman 在廿一世紀來到前已經把什麼都說完了。當然,和大部分先驅一樣,未必是他走得快,而是別人走得慢,甚至往回走。