1. TECHNOPOLY Ben, Shane, Ryan, Erin

2. Intro Technopoly is a totalitarian technocracy “Average person today is comparable to people in the middle ages ; they believed in the authority of their religion, we believe in the authority of science.”

3. Main Idea’s Neil Postman is describing how we view our modern technology today. He then differentiates it by explaining how it was first used in the past. His main idea is trying to show you the impact of technology throughout the dawn of invention.

4. Morals His opinion gears toward the negative side. He believes that all the advances in technology are slowly altering the human race into useless mass of life. As of right now, we are in the process of technology completely taking over human life.

5. Big ideas Today's society with the help of technology has led to the loss of tradition, and communication. Everything from thinking to what you do is based on the influence of technology. -religion, school, simple skills, morals etc. There are specialists and experts for everything, and they set standards for modern society.

6. continued This is a bureaucracy (how to manage tasks, info etc.), and we created it so in a way it is technology It used to be simple but we ourselves have made it more complicated. Bureaucracy is thought to be Tyranny.

7. Connection to world Our everyday life has many examples of bureaucracy. General examples are how we rate shows, grade papers, take polls, statistics etc. We create in a sense an invisible technology which we take advantage of now. We lose the sense of the initial meaning

8. The Author’s Opinion Postman believes that the individuals responsible for bureaucracy and ideas following that principle are “idiotic” -Francis Galton and his “pathological romance” with ranking beauty with numbers. We believe that we should re-think how we use our technology, but not bash it in the sense that Postman does.

9. What to take away In the future, who is going to be in control?