Books like The Ecstasy of Communication

If you want a lucid, sober assessment of how times have changed since the end of the Gutenberg Galaxy read Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. If you want a funhouse mirror version of the same—implosions and hyperreality—read this one. Or read both and let the two hemispheres of your brain fight it out. Or forget them both and read Harry Potter instead—just keep in mind Rowling's books are for kids, anyone over 25 reading them without any of their own is about as dignified as a middle aged man wearing no pants playing Xbox.