"Technopoly" is a word Neil Postman uses throughout the book. He defines technopoly as a society that believes that "the primary, if not the only, goal of human labor and thought is efficiency, that technical calculation is in all respects superior to human judgment ... and that the affairs of citizens are best guided and conducted by experts." Technocracy is a society that is governed by the technical experts that control the decision making over the fields they partake in. Therefore, technopoly and technocracy differ because a technopoly favors the technological side versus a technocracy which favors the actual people’s thoughts.
Frederick Winslow Taylor has a theory that a technopoly is created when technological aspects become valued over human intelligence and judgment.Taylor
This exact situation is happening in A Brave New World and Postman’s book will help provide a better understanding for A Brave New World. This idea of a technopoly fits right in with the concepts in A Brave New World, being that the people in their society have also lost their creativity and individuality. The characters in are at a loss of being able to think for themselves. They are being oppressed by a more efficient way of life even they do not realize it. Bernard is character that questions the state of their society. He notices that his, and everyone else’s thoughts, are inspired by what they are fed by the government. Bernard recognizes that the society he is being forced to live in is, in a way, a technopoly. He doesn’t actually know about the idea is called a technopoly but he knows that the society falling into the same concepts Neil Postman presents to us.
Frederick Winslow Taylor has a theory that a technopoly is created when technological aspects become valued over human intelligence and judgment.
This exact situation is happening in A Brave New World and Postman’s book will help provide a better understanding for A Brave New World. This idea of a technopoly fits right in with the concepts in A Brave New World, being that the people in their society have also lost their creativity and individuality. The characters in are at a loss of being able to think for themselves. They are being oppressed by a more efficient way of life even they do not realize it. Bernard is character that questions the state of their society. He notices that his, and everyone else’s thoughts, are inspired by what they are fed by the government. Bernard recognizes that the society he is being forced to live in is, in a way, a technopoly. He doesn’t actually know about the idea is called a technopoly but he knows that the society falling into the same concepts Neil Postman presents to us.
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