技術反烏托邦的系譜

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。