Neil postmen described three eras and went into some description. The only two that were important were the technocracy and the technopoly. The technocracy was where both religion and science coexist, and in the beginning Faith had the upper hand. The emergence of the tenochpoly is where not only does science get the upper hand, but faith is then put into the technology. It sort of replaces it to the people.
It is said that Fredric Taylor was one of the reason for the shift. He was the creator of the scientific management. He had only meant it to “make the people work faster by replacing their judgments with laws, rules of their jobs. (51). That could be seen as the first step to cutting out human thoughts if it does not work as machine. It could also be drawn from him that, 'Humans beings, in a sense, are worth less then their machinery.(52). This alludes to the fact that is brought up in A Brave new World. The people are slaves to the machine, in that they must make the people. A good example of the people in the book being slaves of the machine and consumerism, “The controllers won't approve of any new games unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated existing games (A Brave new World 31). They cannot or will not allow anything to be made unless it uses machinery made parts and uses a lot of them. It is a good view in that it is a technological totalitarianism.
This is almost of the opposite of the Ray Kurzweil's essay on singularity. Ray was hopeful of the use of technology solving Human problems. He also said that if humans merged then the humans would be more advance. Neil had the fact that technology would become the dominating force and that would make humans lesser.
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