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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Postman, Neil. Technopoly. New York : Knopf, 1992 (OCoLC)555428287 Online version: Postman, Neil. Technopoly. New York : Knopf, 1992 (OCoLC)608408234 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Neil Postman |
| ISBN: | 9780394582726 0394582721 |
| OCLC Number: | 24694343 |
| Description: | xii, 222 p. ; 22 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Neil Postman. |
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Abstract:
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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