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Essay / computers in particular create a culture without moral foundation. He explains that new technologies generally change human understanding of what is true and real. Postman uses the term technopolis to refer to a society that believes that the primary goal and objective of human labor is efficiency and that human judgment is beneath any technical calculation. Postman reveals the negative side of technology.TechnopolyPostman explains that people do not question whether technology is useful or not, but simply because technology is technology and involves new inventions, people adopt it. He argues that people are blinded by technology to what they lose while they focus on what it brings. For example, when man discovered the telescope and discovered that the center of the universe was not the earth; Humans have diverted their attention from social development to study other objects outside space. Humans have fully assumed their role in social issues to specialize in the universe and space. He argues that early scientists like Galileo, Kepler and Copernicus and other great scientists in history used technologies similar to those of today to make their disk...... middle of paper ... ...characteristics in the sense that form is followed by functions. Postman also includes Marshall McLuhan's theory that the message is the stem because it controls the form and scale of social interaction. Conclusion Many people around the world have different reactions to Postman's arguments about technology and its effects and impacts on humans. It is clear from Postman's arguments that technology has positive and negative impacts, that technology benefits and disadvantages human beings. Many people, however, have criticized Postman's perspectives on the impacts of the technopolis and technology in general, arguing that Postman should have offered alternatives on how to understand and manage technology. For them, highlighting the problems of technology without giving possible solutions or remedies was a missed point in Postman's argument and perspective on technology..
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