Neil Postman's book Technopoly regards a new era of human existence where machines not only dominate in the work place but also change the concept of how the world operates. Postman writes that the traditional world and the technological world are clashing but neither one can gain complete control. Traditional workplaces and customs are being lost to the hostile takeover of machinery efficiency. In Brave New World for example, the characters say their years in terms of B.F. and A.F. This refers to before Ford and after Ford because their society believes Ford's moving assembly line was the greatest thing ever invented. It maximized production and was later used in the process of making human beings. Technology is taking over the world and in Brave New World, Huxley was trying to warn what could happen if we let it go too far. By letting technology continue to progress in such ways, it could ruin life as we know it. Technopoly said, “...it does so by redefining what we mean by religion, by art, by family, by politics, by history, by truth, by privacy, by intelligence, so that our definitions meet its new requirements.” This is what Huxley was portraying in his novel. The lack of religion and culture along with constant soma holidays and sexual encounters leads the reader to be genuinely fearful of a technological future. A technopoly is a totalitarian type of government and if America really is one, we are doomed. As society will begin to change and adapt, the old traditions and cultures will be cast out and banished. The totalitarian system will control everybody and we will slowly shift into an era of unquestionable peril. It doesn't matter if we are 1984 bad or Brave New World bad, either one sucks badly. Nobody has freedom and oppression is around every corner. America and the world in general can not be allowed to fall into the grasps of a Technopoly because it will destroy every piece of our humanity and make us machines without feelings.
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