Sunday, October 2, 2011

technopoly blog

While reading the chapter from Neil Postman's Technopoly it was explaining how technology is becoming a larger part into society as more and more technology comes into our lives.  It explained how technology is rapidly leaving things behind.  "Technocracy gave us the idea of progress, and of necessity loosened our bonds with tradition."  It stated traditional things such as the wisdom of the elderly, believing and conforming to sin.  Simple things one may think as to be human.  Not only is technology taking its part in society, its doing so very fast, "Technocracy also speeded up the world.  We could get to places faster, do things faster, accomplish more in a shorter time.  Time, in fact became an adversary that technology could triumph.  And this meant that there was no time to look back or to contemplate what was being lost."  This relates to "A Brave New World" in many ways.  For instance what people find weird in "A Brave New World" such as families and mothers.  Things we think of as normal and almost as a necessity, people see as a burden or unefficient.  Things such as families and religion are already lost in "A Brave New World".  "It does not make them illegal.  It does not make them immoral.  It does not even make them unpopular.  It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant."  In Huxely's world all things are irrelevant that are not permitted.  Families are unheard of and speaking of parents is something only used in scientific use.  Of course all this also relates to the idea of singularity and that technology and humanity will fuse together to form one.  But at what cost?  Is humanity willing to change our morals and lives in order for technology to continue?