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.…
