"One Sure Thing to Remain Sure of- Technology"

In my last blog i discussed who is controlling who. Technology or humanity? Using Neil Postman's chapter Technopoly to come to a better understanding of Aldous Huxley's book Brave New World it can be understood that Huxley was a firm believer in the fact that one day machines would be almost omnipotent. In Brave New World Huxley describes that the World-State began the factories(where they created humans) to keep society equal. However, as time carried on it became a way of life. Neil Postman describes the concept of Technopoly as a "totalitarian technocracy" or "the submission of forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique and technology." In Brave New World this seems to be the case. The people have allowed themselves to be created, molded, and modeled after what the machine wants and teaches. They are ruled by a system that Postman refers to in his book, The Principals of Scientific management created by Fredrick Winslow Taylor; in-which, it is believed that the "primary, if not only, goal of human labor and thought is efficiency, that technical calculations is in all superior to human judgement, [and that in fact] human judgment cannot be trusted because it is plagued by laxity, ambiguity, and unnecessary complexity". This is why every time the people in Brave New World begin to have different ideas or unhappy feelings they take soma so they do not have to think. Taylor describes the goals of this system of Technopoly as exactly that, a system that would think for the workers. Workers were now made and created for specific jobs, the   hobbies of art and reading were extinct, you were made for a job, you would do it without, and then you would die and be quickly replaced. Like Brave New World, Technopoly emphasizes a world of slavery under the machine. Whether humans see it or not Technopoly could one day be ruling over us (if they aren't already)and Postman, Huxley, and Taylor were some of the first to realize it.