Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to TechnologyKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 31 de mar. de 1993 - 240 páginas A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transformation into a society that is shaped by technology—from the acclaimed author of Amusing Ourselves to Death. "A provocative book ... A tool for fighting back against the tools that run our lives." —Dallas Morning News The story of our society's transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it—with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth. |
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... suggest how they have become dysfunctional . The dangers of information on the loose may be understood by the analogy I suggested earlier with an individual's biologi- cal immune system , which serves as a defense against the un ...
... suggest how they have become dysfunctional . The dangers of information on the loose may be understood by the analogy I suggested earlier with an individual's biologi- cal immune system , which serves as a defense against the un ...
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... suggested by saying that from the sixteenth century until re- cently we were " Gutenberg's Men . " Although Bolter's ... suggesting a new relationship to informa- tion , to work , to power , and to nature itself . That relationship can ...
... suggested by saying that from the sixteenth century until re- cently we were " Gutenberg's Men . " Although Bolter's ... suggesting a new relationship to informa- tion , to work , to power , and to nature itself . That relationship can ...
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... suggest that the critic knows the solutions but has merely forgotten to include them in the work itself . A second is threatening and judgmental , as if to suggest that the critic had no business bothering people in the first place ...
... suggest that the critic knows the solutions but has merely forgotten to include them in the work itself . A second is threatening and judgmental , as if to suggest that the critic had no business bothering people in the first place ...
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From Tools to Technocracy | 21 |
From Technocracy to Technopoly | 40 |
The Improbable World | 56 |
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