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Technopoly:

The Surrender of Culture to Technology
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jun 1, 2011 - Social Science - 240 pages
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.


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User Review  - Sean - Goodreads

Man fashions technology; technology fashions man. Required reading with tremendous explanatory power. An extremely helpful account of how technology surreptitiously shapes the way we think, speak and ... Read full review

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User Review  - JP - Goodreads

A valuable perspective but still somewhat reactionary. Postman does not adequately convince me that technology is now our master. He does show the extent to which we are isolated from the underlying ... Read full review

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About the author (2011)

Neil Postman was chairman of the department of communication arts at New York University. He passed away in 2003. Steve Powers is an Emmy Award-winning journalist with more than forty-five years experience in broadcast news.

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