Technopoly

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Technopoly
Neil Postman, Neil Postman
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Technopoly

  • 3.7 (6 ratings) ·
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  • 1 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

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. --Publisher

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Cover of: Technopoly
Technopoly
August 1997, Blackstone Audiobooks
Audio Cassette in English
Cover of: Technopoly
Technopoly: the surrender of culture to technology
1993, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
Cover of: Technopoly
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
1993, Vintage
Paperback in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Technopoly
Technopoly: the surrender of culture to technology
1992, Knopf
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.

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Audio Cassette
Dimensions
9.6 x 6.7 x 1.4 inches
Weight
13.1 ounces

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OL8105327M
ISBN 10
078610645X
ISBN 13
9780786106455
OCLC/WorldCat
30337681
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84838

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