technopoly and technocracy

 Justin Jue

P.7

 Dominguez

In Neil Postman's Technopoly it becomes clear that there is a connection to the novel Brave New World. In the chapter Postman makes a clear distinction of technocracy and technopoly. Technocracy is described to be a society that dosent really have tradition or cultures. The lack of tradition and culture is what relates thenovel to technocracy in a sense that both strive for a more efficient way of life without tradition.Technopoly differs from technocracy because the society instead practices a more traditional and cutural life. However,Postman describes tradition in tecnopoly to be secreative as he states "it makes them invisible and therefor irrelevent." A clear distinction is made between both as Postman explains that "Technopoly is totalarian technocracy". Both technopoly and technocracy create two different world-views which are the traditional and technological. Fredrick W. Taylor plays a big role in technopoly due to his book that first discusses the world of technopoly.His book includes his belief that, “the primary, if not only, goal of human labor and thought is efficiency; human judgment cannot be trusted because it is plagued by laxity, ambiguity, and unnecessary complexity." Taylor believes in a wold of technopoly and that technology is what seperates good from great. While being similar to Kurzweils views that technology will take over his views on technopoly seem convincing due to the rapid growth in technology we are experiencing currently. As time continues people will always seek a better life that consists of improved technology.