Neil Postman expresses that society is affected in five major ways from the coming of technology; stating that first technology is a trade-off, second, technology is never distributed fairly, third there are forms of social and political prejudices in all technology, fourth technology is not additive; but is ecological, and fifth, technology leads to become mythic. In the world’s society today, the five points of Neil Postman’s essay, is a tunneled viewpoint of specific events and not than the grand view of the global community that have been affected by technology
Postman chose his study groups and viewpoints to help support his five claims. However, in doing so, he left his ideas narrow and opinions straightforward. He neglected to subject the five points to an entire global scale, by only allowing specific areas to support his reasoning and as a result the five points became biased. Societies adapt to technology in different ways; religious views and political power, influence how societies take and use technology. Many countries have their own specific laws, and unique ways of day-to-day life to abide by in the use of technology. So having an overall concept to attach to everyone is impractical. …show more content…
His first point is that technology is a tradeoff, he notes, “Think of the automobile, which for all of its obvious advantages, has poisoned our air, choked our cities, and degraded the beauty of our natural landscape.”(1) He uses this statement as a way to manipulate his readers to look at the negatives of the automobile, looking at areas struggling with over population and connects it with the effects of the automobile, which in correlation allows him to persuade his point of a tradeoff by using the reader’s sympathy towards nature, and the environment. However, he only chooses to point out how it is harmful, and not than how it is
Postman chose his study groups and viewpoints to help support his five claims. However, in doing so, he left his ideas narrow and opinions straightforward. He neglected to subject the five points to an entire global scale, by only allowing specific areas to support his reasoning and as a result the five points became biased. Societies adapt to technology in different ways; religious views and political power, influence how societies take and use technology. Many countries have their own specific laws, and unique ways of day-to-day life to abide by in the use of technology. So having an overall concept to attach to everyone is impractical. …show more content…
His first point is that technology is a tradeoff, he notes, “Think of the automobile, which for all of its obvious advantages, has poisoned our air, choked our cities, and degraded the beauty of our natural landscape.”(1) He uses this statement as a way to manipulate his readers to look at the negatives of the automobile, looking at areas struggling with over population and connects it with the effects of the automobile, which in correlation allows him to persuade his point of a tradeoff by using the reader’s sympathy towards nature, and the environment. However, he only chooses to point out how it is harmful, and not than how it is