Technopoly
The Surrender of Culture to Technology

Neil Postman makes an argument in this book that will resonate with most religious people and will probably be rejected by everybody else. It’s an argument against Technopoly and its brother Scientism: the view that science and technology can answer all the problems in our lives. Clearly, science an......more

So much brain food. YUM. Postman has the rare ability to peel away all the layers of cultural biases that form our worldviews and to see each problem he addresses (and there are several large themes in this book - ie technology, statistics, education, popular culture, politics) with clear eyes, intel......more

Audible. Own paperback. Read with local book club. Postman has a great summary of the problems with information becoming a goal rather than a tool, and purposelessness breaking down personal effectiveness and agency, but his answer is to go back to secularism, which he calls "liberal democracy" and t......more

This book was absolutely horrible. Written by an old man who resents the fact that the things he esteemed in his life are no longer as respected as they once were. This book can be summed up with 2 statements: 1. I hate that Science is making it difficult to hold onto my faith, and has enabled the ri......more

Technopoly tells us that technology has an inherent viewpoint, a 'take' on reality. That's obvious. More unsettling is that Postman argues we adopt the viewpoint of the technology we use. For example, by naively citing social science we adopt Scientism--a scarily amoral view of reality. Postman's Te......more