originally published 11/30/1993

Neil Postman’s 1992 book Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology describes the ways cultures allow themselves to become tools . . . of their tools.  Similar to the warnings of many other thinkers against scientism and technicism — writers such as Walker Percy, Jacques Ellul, G. K. Chesterton, and C. S. Lewis —  Postman focuses more than did his predecessors on the way in which the way we think about the world has been influenced by communications technology, even in its earliest forms. From Volume 6 of the Mars Hill Tapes.

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