Do you agree with Neil Postman that:

"I mean the world we live in is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us." ?

p. 58


Personal question

Themes in

Invisible Technologies,

An Improbable World,

information glut | timing of events | change in stories | graphical revolution

themes in Broken Defenses,

information revolutions | cultural transmission | technical alterations.

 

Three chapters in Technopoly Postman.

Critics of Mechanization are one origin of technophobic responses.

Laws of technology:

Conclusion:

"As the power of traditional social institutions to organize perceptions and judgment declines, bureaucracies, expertise, and technical machinery become the principle means by which Technopoly hopes to control information and thereby provide itself with intelligibility and order."

pp. 90-91.