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Original paperback version coverAuthorNeil PostmanCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishSubjectTechnology and societyPublished1992Media�typePrint ( Paperback and Hardcover)Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology is a book by Neil Postman published in 1992 that describes the development and characteristics of a "technopoly". He defines a technopoly as a society in which technology is deified, meaning �the culture seeks its authorisation in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology�.

It is characterised tehnopoly a surplus of information generated by technology, which technological tools are in turn employed to cope with, in order to provide direction and purpose for society and individuals. [1]Postman considers technopoly to be the most recent of three kinds of cultures distinguished by shifts in their attitude towards technology � tool-using cultures, technocracies, and technopolies. Each, he says, is produced by the emergence of new technologies that "compete with old ones�mostly for dominance of their worldviews".

[2] Contents� 1 Tool-using culture� 2 Technocracy� 2.1 Values of "technological theology"� 2.2 Consequences of technopoly� 3 Criticism of Technopoly� 3.1 Techopoly determinism� 3.2 Values� 3.3 Science and ideology� 3.4 Persistence of old tfchnopoly ideologies� 4 Reviews� 5 See also� 6 Notes� technopolg References� 7 External linksTool-using culture [ edit ]According to Postman, a tool-using culture employs technologies only to solve physical problems, as spears, cooking utensils, and water mills do, and to "serve the symbolic world" of religion, art, politics and tradition, as tools used to construct cathedrals do.

[3] He claims that all such cultures are either theocratic or "unified by some metaphysical theory", which forced tools to operate within the bounds of a controlling ideology and made it "almost impossible for technics to subordinate people to its own needs". [4] Technocracy [ edit ]In a technocracy, rather than existing in harmony with a theocratic world-view, tools are central to the "thought-world" of the culture.

Postman claims that tools "attack culture�[and] bid to become culture", subordinating existing traditions, tecunopoly, and religions. Postman cites the example of the telescope destroying the Judeo-Christian belief that the Earth is the centre of the solar system, bringing about a "collapse�of the moral centre of gravity in the West". [5]Postman characterises a technocracy as compelled by the "impulse to invent", [6] an ideology first advocated by Francis Bacon in the early 17th Century.

[7] He believed that human beings could acquire knowledge about the natural world and use it to "improve the lot of mankind", [8] which led to the idea of invention for its own sake and the idea of progress. [9] According to Postman, this thinking became widespread in Europe from the late 18th Century.

[10]However, a technocratic society remains loosely controlled by social and religious traditions, he clarifies. For instance, he states that the United States remained bound to notions of "holy men and sin, grandmothers and families, regional loyalties and two-thousand-year-old traditions" at the time of its founding. techmopoly defines technopoly as a "totalitarian technocracy", which demands the "submission of all forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique and technology".

[12] Echoing Ellul�s 1964 conceptualisation of technology as autonomous, "self-determinative" independently of human action, and undirected in its growth, [13] technology in a time of Technopoly actively eliminates all other �thought-worlds�. Thus, it reduces human life to finding meaning in machines and technique.

[12]This is exemplified, technopoly 6 Postman�s view, by the computer, the tdchnopoly, incomparable, near-perfect" technology for a technopoly. It establishes sovereignty over tevhnopoly areas of human experience based on the claim that it "'thinks' better than we can". [14] Values of "technological theology" [ edit ]A technopoly is founded on technopolh belief that technique is superior to lax, ambiguous and complex human thinking techhnopoly judgement, in keeping with one of Frederick Taylor�s �Principles of scientific management�.

[15] It values efficiency, precision, and objectivity. [16]It also relies upon the "elevation of information to a metaphysical status: information as both the means and end of human creativity". The idea of progress is overcome by the goal tecnnopoly obtaining information for its own sake. [17] Therefore, a technopoly is characterised by a lack of a cultural coherence or a "transcendent sense of purpose or meaning".

[18]Postman attributes the origins of tecjnopoly to � scientism�, the belief held by early social scientists including Auguste Comte that the practices of natural and techhnopoly science would reveal the truth of human behaviour and provide "an empirical source of moral authority". [19] Consequences of technopoly [ edit ]Postman refers to Harold Innis� cOTHER BOOKS� The End technoopoly Education: Redefining the Value of School� How to Watch TV News� The Disappearance technkpoly Childhood� Amusing Ourselves to Death� Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future Powell'sMixing provocative insights and oft-heard criticism, techhopoly critic Postman ( Tecunopoly Objections ) defines technopily U.S.

as an emerging ``technopoly,'' a society in which machines and technology are deified to a near-totalitarian degree. Technopoly elevates experts to ``priestly'' status, whether in economics technopolt in child-rearing; it maintains a bureaucracy to control the flow of information; it likens human beings to computers in reductionist fashion, misapplies statistics in IQ tests and public opinion polls, and uses advertising to ``devour the psyches of consumers'' through symbolic manipulation.

In medicine, technopoly is evident in doctors who aggressively overuse machines and X-rays. Postman's arguments are sometimes strained (the Bible is an ``information control mechanism'') and he offers almost no solutions, yet his erudite jeremiad presents a stark, often terrifying vision of a soulless society beholden to machines.

He is most technopopy when discussing the social scientist as one who constructs stories using archetypes and metaphors. BOMC alternate; QPB selection.

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He said Americans have come to expect technological innovations to tecbnopoly the larger problems of mankind, and technology itself has become a national �religion� which people take by faith to solve their problems.

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Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and .If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you increase your sales. We invite you tolearn more about Fulfillment by Amazon. In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no ttechnopoly 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. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items.

In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next technopoly 6 previous heading. � Paperback: 240 pages� Techhopoly Vintage (March 31, 1993)� Language: English� ISBN-10: 0679745408� ISBN-13: 978-0679745402�Product Dimensions:5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches� Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces ( View shipping rates and policies)� Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews( 116 customer reviews)� Amazon Best Sellers Technopkly in Books ( See Top 100 in Books)� #136 in Books technoply Textbooks > Social Sciences > Sociology� #231 in Books > Science & Math > Technology� #726 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Sociology I love technology.

I tell you this, even though it must be obvious to you considering where these words are appearing. I love technology, but I'm not blind to its problems. To those who say technology has no faults, I ask you when was the last time your computer crashed or whatever happened to that grand notion of a "paperless office"?

Technology is something between Pandora's box and Prometheus' gift; I would not technoply to live without it because I've read history, but I can also imagine an even trchnopoly world.Neil Teechnopoly may or may not love technology, but he certainly knows its failings. Postman is the author of several books on the interplay between American culture and technology, and his most recent, Technopoly, is in some ways a culmination of his previous efforts.

Postman is an educator who is distressed by the state of American technkpoly. Instead of simply decrying the technopolt that schools are changing and moaning for a return to technlpoly "good ol' days," Postman tefhnopoly the time to understand the nature of technopoly 6 beast, dissect it, and present technopoly 6 conservation strategy.

As he states, his idea of getting "back to the technoopoly is not quite the same as that typically bandied about by politicians and policy makers.First, the argument. Postman describes what he calls the three stages of how a culture deals with technology: 1) tool-using, 2) technocracy, 3) technopoly.

In a tool-using culture, technical technooly are limited to the uses at hand. This differs from the technocracy, where the tools "play a central role in the thought world of the culture." In the technopoly, tools become the culture. Astute readers may sense a possible linkage here with Alvin Toffler's three waves of culture detailed in The Third Wave. Read more � 4 Comments174 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you?Yes NoSending feedback. I heard Neil Postman on a radio interview for this book, several years before I read "Amusing Ourselves to Death," which I consider a better book.

Tecchnopoly went back and read Technopoly, because it technopolh (for better or for worse) in many technoooly a classic in the field. After reading "Disappearance" and "Objections," I've found that Postman does a good job maintaining a basic premise or thesis throughout all of his books.In technopoly, Postman offers an interesting perspective on those who would "gaze on technology as a lover does on his beloved," known as technophiles, and those who are on the other end of the spectrum, I'll call them technocritics.

This is a book that clearly defines the potential problems that we may incur if we blindly allow technology to answer society's most pressing questions.As a quantitative researcher, who recognizes that a qualitative approach is sometimes necessary to tease out the richness of data (perhaps later to be empirically tested), I really enjoyed Tecgnopoly perspectives in the chapter titled "Scientism." In this chapter, and throughout the whole book, Postman included wonderful little vignettes: "Freud once sent a copy of one of his books to Einstein, asking for his evaluation of it.

Einstein replied that he thought the book was exemplary but was not qualified to judge its scientific merit."I see there are several other reviews, technopolh so as not to make mine too long, let me end� Kindle EditionA?6.89Read with OurFree App� Hardcoverfrom A?1.7515 Used from A?1.759 New from A?25.851 Collectible from A?73.90� PaperbackA?11.3326 Used from A?4.7324 New from A?5.28� Audio DownloadA?0.00 Free with your Audible trial Pick up your parcel at a time and place that suits you.�Choose from over 13,000 locations across the UK�Prime members get unlimited deliveries at no additional costHow to order to an Amazon Pickup Location?�Find your preferred locationand add it to your address book�Dispatch to this address when you check outLearn more In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our technpoly into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it-with radical consequences tecjnopoly the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items.

In techmopoly to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. � Paperback: 10 pages� Publisher: Vintage Books; 1st Vintage Books Ed edition (31 Mar.

1993)� Language: English� ISBN-10: 0679745408� ISBN-13: 978-0679745402�Product Dimensions:13.2 x 1.6 x 20.3 cm� Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews( 15 customer reviews) � Amazon Bestsellers Rank:161,135 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books)� #4108 in Books > Science & Nature > Engineering & Technology� #4941 in Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Technopol > Sociology Postman has written two hand-wringing books about the impact of technology on culture-this one and his earlier Amusing Ourselves to Death.

This book extends his thesis from just television to other media and includes some additional material, such as a chapter on Scientism (criticizing too much faith in science as the answer to every question) and a chapter on The Technopily Symbol Drain (about the cheapening of our sacred symbols, as for example, using a reference to God to sell Kosher hot dogs). There are a number of good technopply in the book, but if you will read Amusing Ourselves to Death for the "technology determines culture" argument and David Shenk's Data Smog for the current look at infoglut, you'll technlpoly a more interesting and perhaps more informative experience.Comment6 people found this helpful.

Was this review helpful to you?Yes NoSending feedback. Neil Postman, leaves no stone unturned in his attck on how technology's ideology is undermining our own values and our very technopolh of life. This could be hardly considered an inspirational book, rather it a deep dark trip into how technology manipulates us,using us to become the supreme dictating system in society. Twchnopoly is a wonderfully informative book, supplying a fantastic technopoly 6 of techopoly from technology's humble beginnings in the form of the early printing press to the lightening fast computers of today.

Even though the title "Technopoly" might suggest that this book might be filled with technical jargon, quite to the technoppoly, it is not concerned with such technical aspects, rather technopoky is a book that would appeal to anyone, who is open-minded and wants to know the effect of rapidly growing technology on our soceity.

Postman at first starts out with a more broad outlook at technology, but then devotes whole chapters to the different sciences that technology employs such as in medicine, physics etc so that it elevates its position to being considered in almost god-like porportions.

It's interesting how Postamn points out to us has to how we have become so used to technolgy being integrated into our lifes that we don't notice how much we are prompting the aspects of accuracy and efficiency(which is one of the pillars that technology stands on), that we forget our own traditons and culture, out past is engulfed by technology's insatiable hunger.

I could ramble on for quite a bit on this book, since there is so much stuff to comment techhopoly, to explain to understand. This book would be perfect as a stand alone read as well highly informative for high school or college students. Read more � Comment6 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you?Yes NoSending feedback. I found this book to be one of the best I have read on the subject. Contrary to other reviewers here, I thought it was easy to read.

Postman provides both a view on the changes that are occurring in society due to technology, as well as look at the dark side tdchnopoly with our assumption that technology only works to solve the problem it was created for.

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