Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

✍ Scribed by Neil Postman

• Publisher: Vintage
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 239
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 longer 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.

✦ Table of Contents

front cover......Page 1
copyright......Page 7
contents......Page 12
introduction......Page 14
01-the iudgment of thamus......Page 18
02-from tools to technocracy......Page 36
03-from technocracy to technopoly......Page 55
04-the improbable world......Page 71
05-the broken defenses......Page 86
06-the ideology of machines:medical technology......Page 107
07-the ideology of machines:computer technology......Page 122
08-invisible technologies......Page 138
09-scientism......Page 159
10-the great symbol drain......Page 179
11-the loving resistance fighter......Page 196
notes......Page 216
bibliography......Page 222
index......Page 226
books by neil postman......Page 238
back cover......Page 239