About this title: 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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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679745402ISBN:0679745408
Description: Acceptable. A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. ******PLEASE NOTE****** Orders placed after Dec. 7 cannot be guaranteed delivery before Christmas unless you select EXPEDITED shipping! Thank you & Happy Holidays! read more
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Description: Good. 0394582721 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1993-03-31
ISBN-13:9780679745402ISBN:0679745408
Description: Fair. Used for class has LOTS of underlining and notes. No highlighting. Cover shows some wear or creases. Used college bookstore sticker on back cover. Acceptable reading copy-Read it and pass it on! read more
Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679745402ISBN:0679745408
Description: Good. As issued No Jacket. Spine lean, corner bumps, small amount of underlining and marginalia, foxing to the top edge of the text, some deep dents to both covers, and other light to moderate shopwear. By the author of Amusing ourselves to death. read more
Description: Good. 1993 Vintage Press Reprint Softcover(Trade PB) Edition. Some wear to cover, small spots to page edges due to age, text clean. read more
Edition: Fifth Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780394582726ISBN:0394582721
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Spine straight, binding tight, appears unread, no reader/remainder/library marks, covers/pgs flat w/sharp corners, very slight shelf wear. 222 numbered pgs., Audience: General/trade. Photos or other information available by e-mail. Daily orders/e-mail responses. E-mail confirmation of shipment. Check our feedback. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1992-03-17
ISBN-13:9780394582726ISBN:0394582721
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679745402ISBN:0679745408
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Fine (except owner stamp inside front cover) Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth and Board
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780394582726ISBN:0394582721
Description: Good++ in Good++ jacket. This is an attractive gray cloth & board hard back culture book. The condition is Good++ with a Good++ jacket. First Edition. "Postman examins the specific ways in which technology tyrannizes over everything from medical practice to bureaucracy..." from the jacket. This is a solid book with a clean cover and a little edge wear. The pages are bright, clean and unmarked. No names. The jacket is bright with a little wear and a top spine end wrinkle. Looks very interesting ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780394582726ISBN:0394582721
Description: Very Good-Used in Very Good jacket. / 0394582721. Minimal wear to Dj. Some foxing on top of book. Book is clean and tight. Ships with confirming email. 100% money back guarantee. read 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 Technopoly is a negative description of modern American society--wholly taken into technological development, wholly sapped of social mores and the traditions that uphold them. Religion and liberal education have been replaced by bureaucracy and science. God and learning have been replaced by efficiency and progress. Postman is less interested with renewing the vigor of God and learning than with remarking on the stupidity of this exchange. As with any social critic, he's long on problems and short on solutions. Nonetheless, his chapter on Scientism is upsetting enough to make awareness of the problem the beginning of the solution.
If you have a computer or a phone, or have ever used one, read this book."
"One of the five most influential books I have ever read. The overarching lesson I learned is that every technology has a bias. The difficulty lies in determining what that bias might be, and what the consequences of that bias are. When I first read it, the internet did not exist. Even so, it is more relevant today."
"I've liked Neil Postman for a while, and this book was definitely up to par. The only major drawback is that many of its essays are pretty outdated. I think, though, that despite its age, it still holds a lot of relevance in today's world, especially for those of the Millenial generation that take technology for granted even more than everyone else."
"How ironic it seems to me, that here I sit ignoring just about all the lessons of this book as I give Technopoly, the treatise by Neal Postman, an arbitrary rating of four or five stars. Of what use is the information in a star rating to anyone? Bloody none. What is this star rating, then? It's nonsense and noise, the same sort of nonsense and noise that we call data, or news; true or false, we have no choice but to accept it. Postman turns a skeptic eye here to our notions of progress, observing that technological advances have enabled the encroachment of impersonal bureaucracy in all spheres of our lives. Enough babbling."
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