Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

A social critic argues that the United States has become a "technopoly"--a system that sacrifices social institutions for self- perpetuating technological advancement--and suggests ways to use technical skills to enhance our democracy.
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth.