Meet Neil Postman: Technology Critic
1. In this quote, Postman claims that “technological change always results in winners and losers.” He points to the printing press as an example. How does Postman think society changed as a result of the printing press? Who are the winners and who are the losers according to Postman? What changed as a result?
For example with the bible the chruch would the losers in the technology world because everyone use to have just one source of the bible which was hand written by the preacher. The printing press would be the winners in the technology world because everyone became independent of themselves in judging what was being said by other sources of the bible and having different mind sets of what they are being told.
2. According to Postman, what is the relationship between technology and education? Does Postman think technology is a threat to education? How? Can education be used to stem the rapid advance of technology? How?
Postman thinks that technology only uses passive information to transfer a source of education which doesn't provide the maximim education a person or child needs.
3. Do you think the rapid advance of the internet has resulted in winners and losers? Explain how you think it has changed, or will change, the nature of human interactions.
The advance in technoolgy has resulted into many people bcoming more lazy at what they do because with the use of technology makes them do the work for them. I believe that technology in the future will become more and more useful for business and maybe it will become a life style because many people now these days do their school work, business work, their shopping, and etc. through the internet and the more people use it the fanyier technology appeal will become. I do think that technology will result in winners and losers because as the more high tech and fanyier a technology will become the more it will become and not many people may be able to afford it so sorten technology will become on hold on there part of life.
1. In this quote, Postman claims that “technological change always results in winners and losers.” He points to the printing press as an example. How does Postman think society changed as a result of the printing press? Who are the winners and who are the losers according to Postman? What changed as a result?
For example with the bible the chruch would the losers in the technology world because everyone use to have just one source of the bible which was hand written by the preacher. The printing press would be the winners in the technology world because everyone became independent of themselves in judging what was being said by other sources of the bible and having different mind sets of what they are being told.
2. According to Postman, what is the relationship between technology and education? Does Postman think technology is a threat to education? How? Can education be used to stem the rapid advance of technology? How?
Postman thinks that technology only uses passive information to transfer a source of education which doesn't provide the maximim education a person or child needs.
"The "forum" that I think is best suited for this is our educational system. If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it."Postman is stating that students reveal on technology to learn about history and what is going on in the world besides learning it by hand or together as a class. Postman is also stating that don't let technology control your life because your only making the company richer by buying their product. Most of the things you buy are useless and you only buy it by its appeal.
3. Do you think the rapid advance of the internet has resulted in winners and losers? Explain how you think it has changed, or will change, the nature of human interactions.
The advance in technoolgy has resulted into many people bcoming more lazy at what they do because with the use of technology makes them do the work for them. I believe that technology in the future will become more and more useful for business and maybe it will become a life style because many people now these days do their school work, business work, their shopping, and etc. through the internet and the more people use it the fanyier technology appeal will become. I do think that technology will result in winners and losers because as the more high tech and fanyier a technology will become the more it will become and not many people may be able to afford it so sorten technology will become on hold on there part of life.
posted by Stephz Electric-Blog at 11:47 AM
1 Comments:
This is a good start. I suggest you go back an re-read some of the sections above to revise for clarity of language. Make sure all your sentences make sense to you.
One question I have...if internet technologies can be made REALLY cheap, or even free, how might this change flow of information and power in a society? For example, Philadelphia is building a free wireless network for the whole city. How might this change the relationships between people and different groups in society?
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