For the next several weeks, I will be blogging through Neil Postman’s book, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology.
This is only my second foray into Postman’s writing. I have read Amusing Ourselves to Death a couple of times and benefited from it quite a bit. I read the first chapter of Technopoly a couple of nights ago and was absolutely floored. It was worth the price of the book for that one chapter. I couldn’t go on to the second immediately because I had to go back through chapter 1 to digest all of the notes I made in the margins. I look forward to writing about it.
It’s really a shame that the book was written before the internet boom, but I hope that we can make some wise applications to the things that Postman might not have foreseen.
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