technopoly

This chapter of technoploy, directly relates to the idea’s and themes discussed in the book brave new world, in the since that these books share a common bias on the way society is being and will be run. The brave new world is a postmodern society, in which people have now, instead of using technology to further their quality of life, they have instead created a society dedicated to the continuation of technology. The people have become parts to this social machine. Their lives have been conditioned and fitted to the needs and wants of the machine. The people no longer live with emotion, they are more like computers being programmed and instructed on how to live there life’s in compliance to the machines. This is an example of Neil postmen’s concept of technoploy. Neil postmen believe that a society that allows the uncontrolled growth of technology will lose it own since of humanity in the pursuit of compiling to the machine.

The difference between a technocracy and a technoploy is that a technocracy is a society that has entrupners creating technologies to better the process of production for their industry. For example in Neil postmen’s chapter from technoploy he write “Everyone invented, whoever has owned an enterprise and sought ways to make his goods more speedily” So a technocracy is the idea of wanted to do better and by using machines society can help us achieve more goals at a faster pace than ever before. After reading this chapter in relation to the brave new world, I have a larger more vivid understanding of what the author is trying to depict in the readers mind. The author has a world developing an working opposite of everything we have and believe in. This chapter sort of fills in the back-story of where brave new world has come from.