<p>In this witty often terrifying work of cultural criticism Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying self-perpetuating and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics art religion family education privacy intelligence and truth as they are redefined to fit the requirements of the technological thought-world.</p>