Technopoly, Neil Postman (1992)
“Researchers have given this tendency a name: quantification fixation, the tendency to trust a number over your own account of yourself, even when the number is a rough estimate dressed up as a fact.”
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June 17, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Technopoly, Neil Postman (1992)
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Taylor Farms also owns and runs Earthbound Organics, which is available in nearly every grocery store across the US
This framing is so disgusting and irresponsible. Yes, Taylor Farms supplies Taco Bell. THEY ALSO SUPPLY TONS OF OTHER RESTAURANTS AND GROCERY STORES. People will take "avoid Taco Bell" as the lesson which is NOT HELPFUL.
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July 17, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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Neil Postman's 1992 book Technopoly exhibits a scary prescience about current attitudes to AI.
May 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Neil Postman's 1992 book Technopoly exhibits a scary prescience about current attitudes to AI.
I love recommending Neil Postman’s 1992 book Technopoly as a superb look at how technologies threaten/change human culture. He even goes back to the jerk who invented the technocratic concept of a numerical grade being representative for knowledge/wisdom achieved in classwork.
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February 4, 2024 at 6:54 PM
I love recommending Neil Postman’s 1992 book Technopoly as a superb look at how technologies threaten/change human culture. He even goes back to the jerk who invented the technocratic concept of a numerical grade being representative for knowledge/wisdom achieved in classwork.
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Smash The Technopoly!
Neil Postman, Marshall McLuhan, and The Anxious Generation
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Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves To Death and Technopoly makes the point that:
It is actively damaging to your mental health to be constantly exposed to/engaged with terrible events that you can take no actions over. It erodes your sense of capacity and your ability to act.
It is actively damaging to your mental health to be constantly exposed to/engaged with terrible events that you can take no actions over. It erodes your sense of capacity and your ability to act.
Not knowing everything doesn't mean you don't care, but - tragically, awfully, desperately - the US in crisis is the ultimate content firehose and it just *is not possible* to take care of your own mental resilience while engaging with that from afar. It is too much.
September 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves To Death and Technopoly makes the point that:
It is actively damaging to your mental health to be constantly exposed to/engaged with terrible events that you can take no actions over. It erodes your sense of capacity and your ability to act.
It is actively damaging to your mental health to be constantly exposed to/engaged with terrible events that you can take no actions over. It erodes your sense of capacity and your ability to act.
Neil Postman, revisited.
What we can learn from Neil Postman's technoconservatism
Revisiting "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992) by Neil Postman.
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June 14, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Neil Postman, revisited.
TECHNOPOLY. NEIL POSTMAN. PURE HEAT. TOP TO BOTTOM EXCELLENCE. INCREDIBLE WORK NEIL GREAT JOB
January 29, 2026 at 3:28 AM
TECHNOPOLY. NEIL POSTMAN. PURE HEAT. TOP TO BOTTOM EXCELLENCE. INCREDIBLE WORK NEIL GREAT JOB
US tech has extended so many tendrils into so many sectors that it's not possible to defend *any* industrial sector without impinging on the "technopoly."
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May 16, 2026 at 7:23 PM
US tech has extended so many tendrils into so many sectors that it's not possible to defend *any* industrial sector without impinging on the "technopoly."
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From Neil Postman’s “Technopoly”, in 1992.
February 22, 2024 at 3:09 PM
From Neil Postman’s “Technopoly”, in 1992.
New blog post, re-reading Neil Postman's book "Technopoly" in the age of LLMs.
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Re-reading Technopoly
Technopoly by Neil Postman, published in 1993 “Can language models be too big? asked the researchers Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Margaret Mitchell in their famous…
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July 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
New blog post, re-reading Neil Postman's book "Technopoly" in the age of LLMs.
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Im so glad i read postman's technopoly when i was like 17 having a roger waters phase
March 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Im so glad i read postman's technopoly when i was like 17 having a roger waters phase
Media's owned by the Technopoly now.
April 3, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Media's owned by the Technopoly now.
Techno Pop Technopoly Mix
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Techno Pop Technopoly Mix
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The epigraph to Neil Postman’s “Technopoly”
October 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The epigraph to Neil Postman’s “Technopoly”
Technopoly Megaopolis Inception
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September 18, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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Started reading Postman’s “Technopoly” for research. Man knew some stuff
January 20, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Started reading Postman’s “Technopoly” for research. Man knew some stuff
'Information has become a form of garbage, not only incapable of answering the most fundamental human questions but barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems.'
- Neil Postman, Technopoly
- Neil Postman, Technopoly
April 26, 2026 at 3:26 PM
'Information has become a form of garbage, not only incapable of answering the most fundamental human questions but barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems.'
- Neil Postman, Technopoly
- Neil Postman, Technopoly
"New forms of public discourse came into being through newspapers, pamphlets, broadsides, and books...technocratic-typographic America was the first nation ever to be argued into existence in print."
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A society that wants to understand itself probably wouldn't act like this
Revisiting "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology” (1992) by Neil Postman.
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July 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
"New forms of public discourse came into being through newspapers, pamphlets, broadsides, and books...technocratic-typographic America was the first nation ever to be argued into existence in print."
Neil Postman, quoted here open.substack.com/pub/mattdpea...
Neil Postman, quoted here open.substack.com/pub/mattdpea...
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Ordinary Men
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Technopoly
There Goes My Everything
The most important books that all Americans should read.
Ordinary Men
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Technopoly
There Goes My Everything
The most important books that all Americans should read.
January 19, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Ordinary Men
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Technopoly
There Goes My Everything
The most important books that all Americans should read.
Ordinary Men
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Technopoly
There Goes My Everything
The most important books that all Americans should read.
“…On the other, there is the world of television with its emphasis on imagery, narrative, presentness, simultaneity, intimacy, immediate gratification, and quick emotional response.”
- Neil Postman, Technopoly (1992)
- Neil Postman, Technopoly (1992)
May 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
“…On the other, there is the world of television with its emphasis on imagery, narrative, presentness, simultaneity, intimacy, immediate gratification, and quick emotional response.”
- Neil Postman, Technopoly (1992)
- Neil Postman, Technopoly (1992)
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"Technopoly is a parody game in which players are data brokers acquiring tech platforms and service providers to win at surveillance capitalism" scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/a6...
Technopoly: A Surveillance Capitalism Parody Game Design Jam
Protecting your privacy isn’t a game… until now! Technopoly is a parody game in which players are data brokers acquiring tech platforms and service providers to win at surveillance capitalism.
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March 25, 2026 at 5:13 PM
"Technopoly is a parody game in which players are data brokers acquiring tech platforms and service providers to win at surveillance capitalism" scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/a6...