Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to TechnologyKnopf, 1992 - 222 páginas With characteristic wit and candor, Neil Postman, our most astute and engaging cultural critic, launches a trenchant and harrowing warning against the tyranny of machines over man in the late twentieth century. We live in a time when physical well-being is determined by CAT scan results. Facts need the substantiation of statistical study. The human mind needs "deprogramming" while computers catch devastating "viruses." We live, then, in a Technopoly -- a self-justifying, self-perpetuating system wherein technology of every kind is cheerfully granted sovereignty over social institutions and national life. In this provocative work, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation from a society that uses technology to one that is shaped by it, as he traces its effects upon what we mean by politics, intellect, religion, history -- even privacy and truth. But if Technopoly is disturbing, it is also a passionate rallying cry filled with a humane rationalism as it asserts the manifold means by which technology, placed within the context of our larger human goals and social values, is an invaluable instrument for furthering the most worthy human endeavors. - Back cover. |
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... matter what . Today , we believe in the authority of our science , no matter what . However , there is still another possibility , related to Shaw's point but off at a right angle to it . It is , in any case , more relevant to ...
... matter what . Today , we believe in the authority of our science , no matter what . However , there is still another possibility , related to Shaw's point but off at a right angle to it . It is , in any case , more relevant to ...
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... matter how ill - informed and shortsighted those opinions might be . We can see this process of responsibility - shift even more clearly in the case of the statistically based ratings of television shows . The definition of a " good ...
... matter how ill - informed and shortsighted those opinions might be . We can see this process of responsibility - shift even more clearly in the case of the statistically based ratings of television shows . The definition of a " good ...
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... matter contains the best evidence we have of the unity and continuity of human experience and feeling . And that is why I would propose that , in our teaching of the humanities , we should emphasize the enduring creations of the past ...
... matter contains the best evidence we have of the unity and continuity of human experience and feeling . And that is why I would propose that , in our teaching of the humanities , we should emphasize the enduring creations of the past ...
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