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Neil Postman’s Technopoly is about the machinery changes throughout humanity. Technocracy and technopoly are two different things that will lead to the future advancement of technology in our world. Technocracy makes it easier for new things to be created because the society has the impulse to invent new things. More machines are built to assist more of people’s needs. But where do these needs stop? People always want more of what seems impossible at the time, but then the impossible becomes possible, and once that has occurred, they want even more. When technocracy was at a complex level, people started believing that “if something could be done it should be done” (42). Industrialization became more advanced and faith was put into the new inventions. From writing a response for an article to catching up on the football game from last night, people rely on technology for multiple needs. People depend on the telephone to keep in touch from far away and cars are counted on to get people to places. Progress has improved through technocracy because technology has triumphed over the world: “technocracy [has sped] up the world. We could get places faster, do things faster, accomplish more in a shorter time” (45).

In Brave New World, tradition is replaced with what is thought to be better for the society. “Feelies” are substituted for dramatic plays and written works, such as the Holy Bible and Shakespeare. Mustapha Mond explains to John the Savage that this “is the price [they] have to pay for stability. [They’ve] got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art” (Huxley 220). Mustapha Mond believes in technopoly. He removed certain works of art making “them invisible and therefore irrelevant” (48). These arts are not available to the citizens in Brave New World because Mond does not believe that it would help the society. He controls what the people see and this causes it to be a technopology because it is controlling.

Frederick Winslow Taylor created a system that was thought to be capable of solving problems. His system ended up thinking for industrial (factory) workers; “That is crucial, because it led to the idea that technique of any kind can do our thinking for us” 52).