Technopoly the surrender of culture to technology
(2014)

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Audio, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2014
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 40 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781470834388 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11073007, 1470834383 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11073007
LANGUAGE
English
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Read by Jeff Riggenbach

In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, privacy, intelligence, and truth, as they are redefined to fit the requirements of the technological thought-world

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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