Technopoly: The Surrender Of Culture To Technology

Technopoly
As a culture life is always looking for the easy way out and making things more convenient. In Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology Neil Postman dives into how humans are losing themselves to technology and instead of helping the human race it in fact is declining growth. I tend to agree with what Postman is saying throughout the book as it drives home many key points that have become true over the 30 years past release date. The main Faustian deal society has made over the last 30 years is the usage of the cellular phone.
I must admit that I have been succumbing to this plague that has everyone staring down instead of looking ahead. The cell phone was invented in 1973 as a mode of contact for convenience by John Mitchell and Martin Cooper of the Motorola Corporation. At

Through phones we are able to call upon knowledge at any time but may people do not look at the drawbacks phones take from society. As the technology is released it is impossible to turn back the tides of time the culture must adapt and grow with it over time. Though phones have been invented to create an easier means of communication it is actually having an adverse effect of culture throughout the world. In many places people are growing more inept of having personal communication preferring to have conversations through any digital means such as text messaging, emailing, and snapchat. The growing inability to have one-on-one conversations is easily visible as you can see a couple on a date having an e-date if you go to a café such as Starbucks. The ability to write is also decreasing in schools due to the growing use of SMS language on cyber communication. With interaction both verbal and written on the down slope what Postman lays out in front of us in Technopoly is sadly becoming or has become