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, forth 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 rather than the grand view of the global communities 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 …show more content…
He explains that technology alters our way of thinking “The writing person favors logical organization and systematic analysis, not proverbs. The telegraphic person values speed, not introspection. The television person values immediacy, not history.”(3) That based on the technology a person favors their view point; their social wants and needs change as well. However having a technological preference does not jeopardize other technological advancements. Globally there are so many different groups of people looking into the same type of technology that as an entire entity the “social prejudice” falls flat. Postman looks at social justice in a small spectrum of a society with limited access to different types of technology to gather his information. This halters his reasoning because choosing a small group to look at, holding back a greater source of information that is needed to make a wide assumption. Leading into his forth idea that technological change is not additive it’s ecological. He explains that when technologic is invited it doesn’t only effect on a small scale but erupts and covers entire countries to redefine them. “After the printing press was invented, you did not have old Europe plus the printing press. You had a different Europe. After television, America was not America plus television. Television gave a new coloration to every political campaign, to every home, to every school, to every church, to every industry, and so on.”(4) Not all technology that is brought into a society changes them, or is even accepted. Many different inventions didn’t revolutionize a country in a small period of time, the car in 1885 did not give a sweeping change across the globe. The concept of the car had to be accepted and tested and re-work to adapt to different groups of people and to different nations. A lot of technology in societies need time to adapt, and let the technology adjust to
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 …show more content…
He explains that technology alters our way of thinking “The writing person favors logical organization and systematic analysis, not proverbs. The telegraphic person values speed, not introspection. The television person values immediacy, not history.”(3) That based on the technology a person favors their view point; their social wants and needs change as well. However having a technological preference does not jeopardize other technological advancements. Globally there are so many different groups of people looking into the same type of technology that as an entire entity the “social prejudice” falls flat. Postman looks at social justice in a small spectrum of a society with limited access to different types of technology to gather his information. This halters his reasoning because choosing a small group to look at, holding back a greater source of information that is needed to make a wide assumption. Leading into his forth idea that technological change is not additive it’s ecological. He explains that when technologic is invited it doesn’t only effect on a small scale but erupts and covers entire countries to redefine them. “After the printing press was invented, you did not have old Europe plus the printing press. You had a different Europe. After television, America was not America plus television. Television gave a new coloration to every political campaign, to every home, to every school, to every church, to every industry, and so on.”(4) Not all technology that is brought into a society changes them, or is even accepted. Many different inventions didn’t revolutionize a country in a small period of time, the car in 1885 did not give a sweeping change across the globe. The concept of the car had to be accepted and tested and re-work to adapt to different groups of people and to different nations. A lot of technology in societies need time to adapt, and let the technology adjust to