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Technopoly

The Surrender of Culture to Technology

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Technopoly

By: Neil Postman
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, privacy, intelligence, and truth, as they are redefined to fit the requirements of the technological thought-world.

©1992 Neil Postman (P)2000 Blackstone Audio, Inc. History & Culture History & Philosophy Philosophy Science Sociology Technology & Society Technology Witty Capitalism Socialism
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For a 32 year old book, grappling with the damage to culture from technology, delineates something that I believe has merit and yet it is describing a pattern of damage that lies beneath the ridiculous, clunking obvious damages that the elevation of tech now drops on our heads everyday . Very good book. He ends on a call to arms via learning to think about thinking, via the work of the Ascent of Man. I really enjoyed this.

Prescient and brain hurting

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Unfortunately I was unable to tolerate the narration - robotic, too fast and with no feeling for the subject. Its almost like a robot is reading it.

interesting book, horrible narration.

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You have to read/hear this (and Oliver James' The Selfish Capitalist Origins of Affluenza) to properly understand (and be able to articulate) what it is about our modern world that is making us so ignorant, controllable, and unhappy.

Must read!

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A brilliant summary of the problems technology has caused and the effect on culture. A book ahead of its time.
Highly recommend!

Excellent book

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There are places in the recording where entire passages are missing and there are occasionally audible audio artifacts in the file itself.

Some readers may perhaps still find the book useful in that the main message can be understood through the gaps, since they are (so far) relatively rare. But I do not appreciate the thought that I'm spending time listening to an incomplete and corrupted recording.

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