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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... means that humans are relieved of responsibility for the computer's decisions . Through a curious form of grammatical alchemy , the sentence " We use the computer to calculate " comes to mean " The computer calcu- lates . " If a ...
... means that humans are relieved of responsibility for the computer's decisions . Through a curious form of grammatical alchemy , the sentence " We use the computer to calculate " comes to mean " The computer calcu- lates . " If a ...
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... means to look at things before drawing conclusions . Everyone , therefore , is an empiricist , with the possible exception of paranoid schizo- phrenics . To be empirical also means to offer evidence that others can see as clearly as you ...
... means to look at things before drawing conclusions . Everyone , therefore , is an empiricist , with the possible exception of paranoid schizo- phrenics . To be empirical also means to offer evidence that others can see as clearly as you ...
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... means they sug- gest . But to understand their reasons we must also understand the narratives that governed their view of the world . By narra- tive , I mean a story of human history that gives meaning to the past , explains the present ...
... means they sug- gest . But to understand their reasons we must also understand the narratives that governed their view of the world . By narra- tive , I mean a story of human history that gives meaning to the past , explains the present ...
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