In his book Technopoly, Postman invites people (both users and nonusers of technology) to understand the "burdens and blessings" of technology. Technology has made lives easier and created capitalism, the foundation of our economic government. It has also created what he calls "collisions" between the ideals demonstrated in Prensky's Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (technology is useful, technology is too difficult for someone to pick up). It helps kids with different learning situations, like ADD or dyslexia, learn the same things in a more unique way. "In introducing the personal computer to the classroom, we shall be breaking a four-hundred-year-old truce between the gregariousness and the openness fostered by orality and the introspection" (Postman 17). It develops ideas and imaginations of the highest order, and betters the experiences of everyone around it.
I don't have any questions for this blog, but I do think I'll leave you with this: Maybe we shouldn't blame the inventions themselves for external defects.
That might have been an operator error.
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