Computers and Society Book Review Page 18 March 1995 Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology Neil Postman Vintage Books, 1992 R e v i e w e d by: Paul D e Palma G o n z a g a University depalma@gonzaga, edu In the early eighties I worked for a large manufacturer of mainframe computers. On my very first day at work in my very first job in the computer industry, I was treated to a factoid that puzzled me at the time but that has since become a staple of popular accounts of computing. In the context of a lecture on the importance of the digital computer in managing in:formation, we new programmers were told that there is approximately 150 gazillion bits of information in the world and that the amount of new information generated each year exceeds the total amount available before 1900 (or some such date). Information about what, I naively wondered, and are we wiser for it (never mind how you could quantify it)? Well, as it happens, this is the very question that informs Postman's elegant little book. "One way of defining Technopoly," he says, "is to say it is what
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Book Review: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
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