Technopoly

        A Technopoly is the submission of all forms of cultual life to the sovereignty of technique and technology. In Chapter 3 of Technology, by Postman, it describes the transformation from technocracy to technopoly. Many years ago humans were inventing and creating new inventions to make life better. Humans were creating machines and know we have machines creating machines. This description relates to the book, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Brave New World shows how the machines over rule the humans, and how the machines are increasing intelligence.

        Many great inventions where invented in the nineteen hundreds including the idea of invention. In Technology, Postman describes, " Alfred North Whitehead summed it up best when he remarked that the greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the idea of invention itself." (42). Inventions helped many humans out with their life. Without inventions we would never have technology. Society has the telephone to communicate with others, and we have the internet for people to search things or to just have entertainment.

        In Brave New World, it shows one of the major inventions of that book it the first chapter. In the book they describe how they develope humans. Huxley describes, " Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines." (7). They could create dozens and dozens of people in a factory. The way I see it is that machines are creating humans. The machines are going to just get more intelligent and start creating machines, when it is suppose to be the humans that create the machines.Either way, technology is just going to increase no matter if the humans or the machines are creating it.

The Brave New Singularity

In just a few years technology chould soon rule over humanity. In Lev Grossman's article, 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal, Grossman describes how in about 35 years human civilization could come to an end. As the years past us by, the technology is getting more intellegent but also more intellegent than humans. To many people they believe this is just a false statement and would never happen in our lifetime.

This technology could never well do everything us humans can do. Grossman describes in his article, "not just doing arithmetic very quickly or composing piano music but also driving cars, writing books, making ethical decisions, appreciating fancy paintings, making witty observations at cocktail parties." (Grossman). If it is possible for technology to be able to do what humans can do, then that just shows how intellegent they are. If they can be that intellegent then they can get faster and faster until they are smarter than humans.

In Brave New World, the New World is sort of the technology world. The New World has technology that is continueing growing faster and faster than humanity. They have helicopter and their high buildings. They also have factories that create humans. Technology is basicaly building the humans and create they to be high caste or low caste. Even though the Director is deciding if the humans are high or low caste, the technology helps develope the brain to think what the Director wants them to think by playing someone talking over and over again.By this way the technology is still kind of creating the humans.

In the Brave New World, Huxley described, " because most of them die long before they reach this old creature's age. Youth almost unimpaired till sixty, and then, crack! the end." (Huxley, 111). This is the difference between Brave New World and the article. In the article, Grossman describes that technology would make us live much longer than now, and in Brave New World it describes that humans die at around sixty years. I believe that the world will never come to an agreement until it actually happens.

The Rhetorical

         In the article,The Relationship Between Gods and Humans in Aias and the Poetry of Sapphos, by Sujay Kulshrestha, the main purpose of the text is to inform the readers about the relationship between gods and humans. The writer is attempting to accomplish giving the readers insight about the relationship between the gods and humans through Greek Literature. The intended audience would be the people who like the Greek Literature. The audience influences the writer to write many quotes and examples, which should help support the main topic sentence.
        The subject of the text is about Greek gods and humans. This subject is appreciated by the audience because it shows the relationship between the gods and humans through the two pieces of Greek Literature. The topic sentence of the article is, " Reading Greek plays provide valuable insight into the relationships between gods and humans." This thesis states that the Greek plays show insight about the subject of this article, which is gods and humans. 
       The writer used many quotes as evidence in this article. I think the evidence is important because what if some people don't believe what the writer has to say. The evidence shows the readers that what the writer stated is the truth. I believe that appropriate evidence would be quotes from the two pieces of literature that show the relationship between gods and humans. The only type of inappropriate evidence would be, evidence that wouldn't be about the gods and humans relationship.
        This piece is structured with an introduction, four body paragraphs, and a conclusion. The writer begins the essay with the topic sentence to draw in the readers. All the body paragraphs have quotes as evidence and the introduction and conclusion paragraph begin and close the essay very well. I believe that the writing is done effectively. It seems like the writer put much thought and time into the piece.
        The writer was very clear in the writing. The writer didn't use any formal kind of language that was to hard for me to read. In the essay the writer didn't write any specialized terms that I wouldn't be able to understand. The writer did use tropes in the body paragraphs. The writer used tropes to help describe a topic so it would be easier for the readers to understand more clearly.This are also used to enhance meanings for some topics in the essay.
        The writer does not establish himself as an acceptable authority on the subject to the article. The writer never mentioned himself in the article at all. Throught the article he was basing the essay on quotes and facts from the Greek literature and not on himself.
        This type of writing is very close to the type of writing that we follow. There is Introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. In the Indroduction there is a topic sentence that ties the whole essay together. Then in the body paragraphs there is a quote in every body, then after the quote there is the response to the quote. In the conclusion it just basicly repeats itself. But, overall, it was a very well writen essay. I didn't believe it was going to be that good of an article.

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