Technopoly (27 page)

“No contemporary essayist writing about American pop culture is more fun to read and more on target.”—
Los Angeles Times

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTIONS
Stirring Up Trouble About Language
,
Technology, and Education

In this series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, readers will find themselves rethinking many of their bedrock assumptions: Should education transmit culture or defend us against it? Is technological innovation progress or a peculiarly American addiction?

Current Affairs/Science/Education/0-679-73421-X

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CHILDHOOD

From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today—and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood.

Media/Current Affairs/0-679-75166-1

THE END OF EDUCATION
Redefining the Value of School

In this provocative analysis, Neil Postman suggests that the current crisis in America’s educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a unifying “narrative” like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today’s schools promote the false “gods” of consumerism, technology, and ethnic separatism.

Education/0-679-75031-2

TECHNOPOLY
The Surrender of Culture to Technology

Postman launches a trenchant warning against the tyranny of machines over man in the late twentieth century.
Technopoly
chronicles our transformation from a society that uses technology to one that is shaped by it, as it also traces its effects upon what we mean by politics, religion, intellect, history—even privacy and truth.

Current Affairs/Sociology/0-679-74540-8

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