The Surrender of Culture to Technology,
by Neil Postman
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Neil Postman writes in a brisk, opinionated voice that mixes cultural history, polemic, and wry aphorism. Reading it feels like being pressed to see familiar tools as forces that reorder politics, education, art, and truth. What works best is the book’s ability to supply striking language and memorable examples for talking about technology’s cultural consequences. Its main limitation is dated concrete examples and a rhetorical rather than empirical approach, so readers must translate cases to the social-media and AI era. Offers critique, not hands-on fixes.
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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses Technology, as a support system but instead is shaped by itwith radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth....
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Sociology, Most Recommended Books, and Technology.
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