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This 5 page paper discusses Neil Postman's provocative book Technopoly and the author's belief that our advances in technology have done a great deal of damage to us in terms of losing our humanity. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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this paper is the book and its theme, which is that technology is devastating our humanity. This is an extremely important topic, since technology is now so much a
part of our everyday lives that we no longer notice its effects. This paper discusses Postmans style; his ideology; gives a statement of one of the points he makes in
the book; discusses his belief that we are "drowning" in useless information, and why that is dangerous. It also comments on the evidence he presents and his insight into
these issues. Analysis Postman is an "eloquent and outspoken critic of technology" who has written several books about what he sees as the threat technology poses to
our sense of our own humanity (London). As such, he is not an unbiased source, but has espoused a definite agenda: he warns us against what he sees
as the dangers of technology. His view, while interesting, is not universally accepted-he has a lot of critics. What this means is that his books are not subtle
and readers dont have to sift through the writing to find his meaning: he states his beliefs explicitly. Postmans ideological stance is almost "neo-Luddite" (insofar as such a designation
exists; "neo-Luddites" are anti-technology, both in general and in particular) ("Neo-luddism," 2005). Postmans objection is apparently both to technology itself and our slavish devotion to it, from which arises
our concomitant belief that anything technological is automatically good (London). Postman clearly feels that technological advances bring cultural changes and that we are not sufficiently aware of them ("Neil
Postman," 2003). It is our failure to truly understand how technology changes the culture that is his focus in this book. Postman believes that we live now in a
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