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

By:

Postman, Neil [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: 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):

Technology -- Social aspects

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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Previous	303.483 PAR Conceptualizing technological change : theoretical and empirical explorations /	303.483 PEP The postdigital membrane : imagination, technology and desire /	303.483 POO Beyond engineering : how society shapes technology /	303.483 POS Technopoly : the surrender of culture to technology /	303.483 PUR The machine in America : a social history of technology /	303.483 RAD The Radicalisation of science : ideology of/in the natural sciences /	303.483 RIS Risk, media, and stigma : understanding public challenges to modern science and technology /	Next

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

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

"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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