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Technopoly : the surrender of culture to technology / Neil Postman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1993Edition: First Vintage Books editionDescription: xii, 222 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0679745408
  • 9780679745402
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.483 20
LOC classification:
  • T14.5 .P667 1993
Contents:
The judgment of Thamus -- From tools to technocracy -- From technocracy to technopoly -- The improbable world -- The broken defenses -- The ideology of machines: medical technology -- The ideology of machines: computer technology -- Invisible technologies -- Scientism -- The great symbol drain -- The loving resistance fighter.
Summary: "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."--Publisher description.
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Book Distance City Campus Main Collection 303.483 POS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Issued 04/10/2024 A149406B

Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210) and index.

The judgment of Thamus -- From tools to technocracy -- From technocracy to technopoly -- The improbable world -- The broken defenses -- The ideology of machines: medical technology -- The ideology of machines: computer technology -- Invisible technologies -- Scientism -- The great symbol drain -- The loving resistance fighter.

"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."--Publisher description.

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