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| Author | Neil Postman |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Technology and society |
| Published | 1992 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (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 by 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]
- ^ Postman (1993), pp. 71–72.
- ^ Postman (1993), p. 16.
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