Technopoly: Tools-> Technocracy->Technopoly

In Neil Postpam's Technopoly, the author boldly attempts to demonize technology and portray it as the ruiner of art and culture, and high moral ground. He discusses a shift in technology, and the ever growing degree of control it has over our lives. In the beginning, technology simply existed as tools in our hands, helping us carve our sculptures, cook a dinner, or hunt for the deer that will be cooked. In this era, technology was bound by religion or theocracy. "... We may say further that all tool-using cultures from the technologically most primitive to the most sophisticated are theocratic or, if not that, unified by some metaphysical theory. Such a theology or metaphysics provides order and meaning to existence, making it almost impossible for the technics to subordinate people to its own needs." Technology essentially helped man come closer to God.
As time went on, technology didn't stay so culture-friendly, and attempted to actually become culture, creating paradigm shifts among people in areas such as politics and religion. For instance, the telescope destoryed the idea that the Earth is the center of the universe, taking down the moral fiber of people with it. This, Postman coined as Technocracy, an idea that propels itself by allowing man to acquire knowledge of the nature world and consequently opening the stage for constant invention and reinvention for the sake of invention. More than being a simple hunter and gather culture, technocracy starting putting doubts into man's mind; now, not everything that surrounds him is real and the truth. Despite these uncertainties though, society is still somewhat connected to its upbringing of religious goodness and loyalty to its major beliefs.
Lastly, the world has entered a state of technopoly which basically puts "all forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique and technology." Whereas human thinking allows for drifting and a general approach to problem solving, technology is now vauled much more, yet its driving forces work for efficiency, precision, and objectivity. Technopoly is kind of like a dictatorship, but even more dangerous because people can sense the evil totalitarianism of politics, but technology is like a good old friend. The computer represents everything that is wrong with technology, because it is simply assumed that computers are smarter than we are.