Brave new world Quote by Neil Postman

“Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World,” he argued in his 1993 book on the…

— Cal Newport

“With the rise of Technopoly, one of those thought-worlds disappears. Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave…

— Neil Postman

“I am hardly a technophobe. But we will get the best of these technologies only if we don’t let them distract us from making…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Huxley’s assertion was that technology would lead to passivity. The ease with which we could consume mind-numbing entertainments and distractions would ultimately rot our…

— Jonathan Taplin

“Technology is amoral, and inventions are routinely deployed in ways their creators neither intend nor sanction.”

— Nicholas Carr

“Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the…

— Neil Postman

“Note, please, that I condemn only junk science (as does Mr Delingpole): this is in fact a measure of my, and his, regard for…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

“Based on its clear energetic signature as new technologies are breathlessly rolled out following a blatantly prewritten script, the current era might best be…

— Sol Luckman

“Revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new technologies—it happens when society adopts new behaviors.”

— Clay Shirky

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal,…

— Andrew Weil

“The one thing that could bring about the fall of society as we know it, would be to convince everyone, beyond any reasonable doubt,…

— J.T. Nicholas

“We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are…

— David Sarnoff