A review by authorjbr
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman

4.0

The beginning of this book is weak. It’s technopoly claim seems to me to be a little unclear. It feels more like it makes statements without building arguments, expecting me to take the statements more as aphorisms than as evidence. The latter half of the book analyzing technologies and culture is much stronger to my mind. The chapter on medical technology especially so, though the social science chapter was very interesting as well.
As an educator, the last chapter just makes me more interested in reading Postman’s writings about education as a subversive and as a conserving activity. Always more to read!