Technology monopoly: The surrender of civilization to technology

"Technology monopoly: Civilization to technology surrender" is a famous "Media criticism Trilogy", which systematically explains the influence and destruction of the technology monopoly on the culture, religion, tradition and psychology of human society, and points out the negative consequences of the development of technology without control: the culture created by technology lacks the moral foundation, It destroys certain psychological processes and social relations and destroys the value of human existence.

Content Introduction

"Technology monopoly (civilization to technology surrender)" was once the "New York Times" TOP100 bestseller, quite a lot of readers agree. Neil Postman, a world-renowned media theorist and critic, embarks from the present social situation and reveals the relationship between technology development and change and civilization with a unique perspective, focusing on the negative effects of technological monopoly on today's society (e.g., children's intelligence tests and medical examinations, ignoring cultural and emotional needs). After entering the era of big data and mobile Internet, the impact of technology on culture and society has become more pronounced, and the topic of this book is being continued by a series of major technological changes taking place today. In today's society, only the trend of technology, there is a amazing publication effect. This book aims at the current social behavior of the alert, so as to avoid the drawbacks of technology monopoly.

The book believes that the development of human technology can be divided into three stages: the use of tools, technology governance and technology monopoly three stages; human civilization is also divided into three types: tools use civilization, technology domination civilization and technology monopoly civilization. According to Bozeman, the relationship between technology and people is also the enemy, and he is more inclined to point out the dark side of technology so as not to cause harm to civilization. He believes that in the process of using civilization, technical service, social and cultural, technology is trying to attack and replace civilization, but it is difficult to shake, at the stage of technological monopoly civilization, the information is overrun, and the technology supremacy consumes the traditional worldview, thus realizing the totalitarian technology rule. Before the advent of technology monopoly, the information control mechanism helps people to harness technology through courts, schools, families, political parties, countries and religions, while in the technological monopoly stage, the multiple dams and gates that resist information flooding fall apart, and the world is difficult to manage and to grasp. "Technology monopoly: Civilization to technology surrender" reveals the technical monopoly stage of various "soft" technology deception role, lambasting so-called social "science", condemning only scientism, it distinguishes the natural science, social "science" and the similarities and differences of the literature, it for the exhaustion of traditional symbols bemoaned deplored, It called on people with strong moral care and love to desperate resistance to technological monopoly, and resolutely opposed to the culture of surrender to technology.

About the author

(USA) Bozeman (Nell Postman) Translator: Cai Jindong Chuanlong
Bozeman (Nell Postman) (1931-2003), a world-renowned media theorist and critic, was a former professor at New York University in the United States. His field of research spans pedagogy, semantics and communication, and promotes the media environment pioneered by McLuhan and Aenys, and pushes the school into the mainstream of North American communication. He was awarded the "George Orwell Award" by the American Academy of English Teachers and the Distinguished Professor of New York University. There are 25 books in the world, there are: "American language", "Discover Your Language", "Explore your Language", "language and Reality", "Crazy Madness, Stupid", "teaching as a preservation activity", "teaching as a subversive activity", "The End of Education", "building a bridge to the 18th century", "serious objection" such as Its "The disappearance of childhood", "Entertainment to death" and "technology Monopoly" is a famous "Media criticism Trilogy", and will continue to have a lasting impact in Chinese academia. He has lectured around the world and has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from some of the world's leading universities.

Directory

Translator sequence
Order
1th Chapter
The judgment of Overenthusiasm

2nd Chapter
From tools to technology domination

3rd Chapter
From technology domination to technology monopoly

4th Chapter
A world of uncertainty

5th Chapter
A broken line of defense

6th Chapter
Theological Theology of Mechanics: medical Technology

7th Chapter
The Theology of Mechanics: computer technology

8th Chapter
Stealth technology.

9th Chapter
The Doctrine of Science supremacy

10th Chapter
Large loss of symbols

11th Chapter
Loyal fighters of the fight

Reference documents

Book Pick

When humans rely on tools to achieve a certain procedure, there will inevitably be side effects coupled with the body.

There is no denying that each invention plays an important role in the process of building a new relationship between tools and civilizations. But the destruction and influence of the tools on civilization is not so obvious that we are lost in the jungle of technology without knowing, and gradually ignoring faith, hope and love, without which we are only tools.

When machines and technologies start to monopolize the world, humans have reason to start to rethink what human beings have gained and what they have lost in the process of technological monopoly.

The uncontrolled development of technology destroys the vital roots of humankind. The culture created by technology lacks the moral foundation, it destroys some psychological process and social relations, and destroys the value foundation of human existence. In a word, technology monopoly is both a friend and an enemy.

America's victory has convinced a disastrous view that technology will be our Savior, both in times of peace and in war.

As Thoreau said, most of us are apt to become tools.

It is wrong to think that a technological invention has only a single effect. Any technology is both a burden and a gospel, not black or white, but both pros and cons coexist.

A wise man, even with a sad-faced Freud, will first acknowledge the success of the technology before criticizing it. Note: If you want to criticize others, first think about how to praise him.

The power of a person who controls a technology will accumulate and inevitably form an alliance that is antagonistic to those who fail to grasp the expertise of the technology. Note: Like the big players in the stock exchange will often get together to communicate long-term views.

In the long run, television may proclaim the death of a teacher's profession, because the school is a derivative of the printing industry, and its survival depends on the importance of printing in the world. Note: Is it too simple to say the school?

The man with the hammer saw all the nails in his eyes.

New technologies will compete with old technologies for time, attention, money and prestige, and, most important, the dominance of the world view. Note: The newcomer will also compete for the old man's everything.

New technology is not just about adding or reducing something so simple, it's about changing everything. Note: Like online shopping malls change the way sales, shopping, shopping habits.

The progress of one's thinking and the improvement of living conditions are all the same thing. Note: If you always think of yourself as poor, it's hard to get rich.

Science is a source of strength and progress, and this view is now well known and does not sound like the words of people in distant times.

The greatest invention of the 19th century was the invention of the idea itself.

19 The world also witnessed the rise of the "utopia" trend of thought.

Fresh things are always closely related to progress.

Modern people are as gullible as ordinary people in the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages, no matter what happened, people believed in the authority of religion. Today, no matter what, people believe in the authority of Science. We believe because there is no reason not to believe.

The oldest secular bureaucracy in the school's adult technology-dominated society, using this organizational structure, can legalize certain parts of the flow of information while restricting other parts . Note: This situation still exists now! Specifically what to think about it yourself!

School is the means of managing information ecology.

What is the responsibility of the citizen? What is the nature of education? What are the aspects of human progress? What are the limitations of social structure?

The social system is concerned with the "meaning" of information, and the rule of law is concerned with the "destructive" of information.

School is one of the mechanisms of information control. The school absorbs or rejects the knowledge in certain fields, which directly reflects the goal and significance of education.

The most powerful information-control agencies are religion and state.

George Bernard Shaw once said that all trades are in collusion with outsiders to fool laymen.

Every year, about 78000 people suffer from cancer due to medical and dental x-rays. It is estimated that, with a generation of time, radiation can cause 2.34 million of people to develop cancer.

It has been reported that nearly 40% of operations in the United States are unnecessary. It is no exaggeration to say that hospitals in the United States are considered one of the most dangerous places in the country. At the same time, it has been documented that, where doctors strike, the death rate will decline.

We have to remember what work can go on without a computer, and always remind ourselves of what to lose once we use the computer.

We must keep this story in mind: it is said that there is a statisticians, just because the average depth of a river only 4 feet wade the past, the result was drowned.

Why do we use statistics to do such measurements? The only reasonable explanation is that, for social and political reasons, the "scientific investigation" is used to conceal its core evil nature.

Advertising becomes a combination of deep psychology and aesthetic theory.

If you don't know anything about what happened before you were born, you'll always be just a child. It is no exaggeration to say that, in order to achieve the goal of "raising awareness", history will be our most effective means of intelligence.

Knowledge is not an immutable thing, but a stage in the history of human development, with its past and its future.

Review

The book has been well read for a long time, and now can not remember what the book said;

The book excerpt is just excerpts from some of the more important I think, I am more interested in the information, but the book is more exciting story!

As mentioned in the book excerpt, "It is said that there is a statisticians, just because the average depth of a river only 4 feet rushed wade past, the result was drowned." ”。

The book systematically explains the influence and destruction of the technology monopoly on the culture, religion, tradition and psychology of human society, and points out that the development of technology is not controlled by the evil result: the culture created by technology lacks the moral foundation, it destroys some psychological process and social relations, and destroys the value of human existence.

And through a story, let us understand more deeply.

When humans rely on tools to achieve a certain procedure, there will inevitably be side effects coupled with the body. Just as I rely on the memory capacity of the computer, and my memory is getting worse; I rely on computer computing power, my own arithmetic ability is also getting worse.

There is a good side and a bad side to everything.

Technology itself is not good or bad, but the use of technology for the purpose of the people!

such as unlocking technology, professional unlock people are to help those who lost keys to solve problems, and thieves are used to create trouble.

Any technology is both a burden and a gospel, not black or white, but both pros and cons coexist.

When we look at the problem, we must also learn from many aspects, multi-angle to see, not only to see the good side, but also to see the bad side;

In the application of technology, but also to reasonable use, do not misuse of technology, resulting in adverse consequences.

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