technopoly

Take the technopoly that we live in and take a tool-using society that still exists there.

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology 1992

We go over into technopoly when the technological world overwhelms the traditional world.

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology 1992

In a technopoly, we say, well, you don't have to rely on faith.

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology 1992

You had the tool-using, and then we're a technopoly.

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology 1992

So I use social science as an example of really a technique that is part of the machinery of technopoly.

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology 1992

The reason I call America the first technopoly is that more than any other culture that I can think of, we have committed ourselves to technology.

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology 1992

We are all guilty of being happily amused by the goodies and the candies we deserve as a result of our own surrender to this technopoly we let this Third World capitalist state establish.

Planet Malaysia 2008

If left unchecked, Postman argued, America's new technopoly -- "the submission of all forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique and technology" -- would destroy "the vital sources of our humanity" and lead to "a culture without a moral foundation" by undermining "certain mental processes and social relations that make human life worth living."

The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog 2008