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Title: Technopoly

Subtitle: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

Author: Neil Postman

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-11-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 71 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, privacy, intelligence, and truth, as they are redefined to fit the requirements of the technological thought-world.

Members Reviews:

Indispensable

This is indispensable to philosophy of science and/or technology. Postman is more relevant now than ever.

Error in recording

With 10:48 left in chapter 4, there is a jump that is clearly an error. Two unrelated thoughts get connected across the break. This needs a fix.

Great read (listen)

Reading this book was insightful... Considering the book was published in 1992 the contents are relevant in 2015.

A manual for American culture

I know it's not easy to look our own cultural assumptions in the face, but this book should be essential reading for every literate American.

A Mandatory Read for All Educators!

This should be a required Text in EVERY Classroom!

Furthermore, all educators should be taught this text in an extensive Training!!