Technopoly ch. 3 & 4

Chapter 3, Postman gives examples from our past and how we have changed with the invention of technology. Postman looks at soceities that are technocracy ("loosely controlled by social and religious constums but driven with and impulse to invent:) and a technoplogies (find their lives meanings in technology) I personally think that Postman went really deep and has a "dark" view of our society. But I also have to admit that there is truth behind what he is saying. Pg. 52 Postmans says "That human beings are in a sense worth less than thier machinery." I think that in some ways our society does demonstrate this. I quickly move jobs and change lives around technology, we give up personal relationships to have tech based relationships, and would rather spend more time with technology then with nature or people. We do treat ourselves and others a worth less than technology. Postman also identifies 4 reasons why a technopoly has developed here in America?
1. American Character
2. Genius and Audacity of American captialists
3.No other reason to look for fulfillment, creativity or purpose
4.Lost confidence in old belief systems

Chapter 4, To start off this chapter Postman said a couple quotes that really through me for a loop: "Social Science is a vigourous ally of Technopolgy and must therefore be regarded with a hostile eye." and "there is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it." Sadly I think he is right, how often do we see ads on T.V backed up by "Doctors" and ''Professors" that claim things we know to be false. On Pg. 60 Postman also compares technocracy and the information that came from it as a genie proclaiming information to be the god of new culture, and that this genie was a deciever. I made the connection/comparison to that of Satan as a serpent. He claimed in some ways the same thing, the knowledge that only God could have. Satan decieved Eve, and information has decieved us today.

Burning Question: What will our social skills look like 20 years from now?