Although I recently enjoyed (and posted about) Neil Postman’s work, I thought Rob Horning made some valid critques here: The postman always rings twice
The parameters within which technology should operate must be established collectively, politically, but mounting moral panics about new technology results only in a withdrawal into individual soul-searching. The point of tech criticism should not be to confirm our powerlessness but to clarify how to better distribute the power that technologies put at our command.