blog 1 neil postman

The first idea was that technological changes was that it was a trade off, meaning imbalance can occur while its happening. Postman is stating that they are pros and cons in technology. One examples was automobile, the pros is that it can move your around fast and get you places while you’re operating it, the cons are it pollutes the environment. Culture will always pay a price for new technology. The second idea was that new technological changes were never distributed evenly among the population, stating they advantages and disadvantages to this. It benefits some while harming others. The third idea, embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea. The new technology is a philosophy which is a expression in how the technology makes people use their mind and bodies. The fourth idea is technological change is not additive, but it is ecological. An example of water molecules changing colors is meant by ecological change. In politics people in suits changed America for the good not college students with karl marx books. In the final idea media tend to be mythic. they use this term to describe new technologies being god given. People would then have to set their time to watch TV and other daily habits.

What made sense in postman 5 ideas on new technology is that they were pros and cons on it, how it effects the environment in a negative. What also made sense was it was unevenly distributed among the population, how it makes people user their mind and body. What doesn’t make sense was it was ecological sense more then additive change, media is mythic. It doesn’t make sense for technology to be time set and superstiouus.