Technopoly Part 2

In the last half of Technopoly, Postman shares mainly negative views towards technology in our society.  He feels that technology is using people and that it has become the culture and taken away what we used to have.   There are advantages and disadvantages to all the technologies that we have today.  I think that the positives do out weigh the negatives and that these technologies haven’t taken over us completely.

When we think about technology its hard to think about how far we’ve come.  We’re so used to it because we’ve grown up with it that we take it for granted.  We don’t really know what it’s like to live like without most of our “necessary” items.  We can’t really remember what they days were like when we didn’t have a cell phone to constantly stay in touch with people or computers that we could take everywhere we go so that we’re always on top of things.  So in this way, technology has taken over our society.  A lot of people would rather sit around a play video games or be on Facebook for hours instead of working or going out and doing something not involving these forms of technology. 

However there is good that comes from these advances in technology.  Without it, the medical fields would be completely different.  We wouldn’t be able to find out what’s wrong with someone so quickly, cure sicknesses that we couldn’t before or diagnose someone a lot sooner than we were able to.  Having the cell phones has made it a little easier to be safer because by having a phone on you all the time you are one phone call away from help when you need it.  There are many other advances that are helpful more then there are distracting to us which have made it a lot easier to function.  Postman believes that these technologies are using us.  He believes that these new machines that we have in the medical fields are more controlling towards the doctors because they are so powerful and may need special training.  However, the doctors have to know what they are doing to cure the person in the first place, with or without the machines.  The new advances in machines just help to make they’re job a little easier.

I do believe that technology has become the biggest change in our society over they years because now there is so much more that you can do and access with out any trouble.  Though it can be distracting at times, these technologies have also helped to make our lives a lot easier and help us get through tasks more quickly.  So even though we forget what life was like before all of these advances, the technological culture isn’t as bad as Postman makes it out to seem.