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.