Technopoly pt. 2

In Neil Postman's second half of the novel Technopoly he discussed the remarkable age of machines. The making of them, some of the first most phenomenal inventions that would take the world by storm and finally the mind behind the inventions and their intensions. Some of the key things I found in these chapters were the fact that machinery takes a away complexity, eliminates a reasonable amount of time spent doing a task that can be done otherwise with this invention. I find that machines are indeed another source of technoploy because yes they make improvements but at the same time we sometimes abuse the resources we have. Postman discussed the doctors in the United States in comparison with the doctors who worked in the United Kingdom, he found that they use more drugs, x-rays and antibiotics than any other place. In my opinion, after reading and becoming aware of the phrase technopoly I realized that in some ways we cripple the simplistic things of life just to regularly use the complexities that simplify. Here's an example, Americans become crippled with the use of a thing so much that they become unaware of the real use for the thing like antibiotics, we use them so much we dont' let our bodies do the thing they were created to do. So much that we are among the countries with the most health problems because we look at only the intension of the invention and not the consequences that come along with it. The innovation that comes along with technology is so widespread because we have let it become that way. Humans put so much trust and pressure of an machine or computer that when they geta "virus" or "the computers down" we disassociate ourselves from the blame of the invention becoming ill. When Neil Postman descibed how humans take the focus off of what we created to rather blame it one the cretaion i found that perspective very interesting because what it really means is we have "relinquished  control"(114). By giving up control, we not only face problems but consequences -  i bet we all should think twice about have an entire computerized society.