Saturday, June 8, 2019

Technopoly is totalitarian technology

With the rise of Technopoly, one of those thought-worlds [technological or traditional] disappears. Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way Aldous Huxley outlines in Brave New World. It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant. And it does so by redefining what we mean by religion, by art, by family, by politics, by history, by truth, by privacy, by intelligence, so that our definitions fit its new requirements. Technopoly, in other words, is totalitarian technology.

Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (p. 48) 

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