Ellul's ideas of technology where that technology was a category independent to human action that was autonomous, "self-determinative" and undirected in its growth and reducing human life to finding meaning in machines (Ellul,13). Thus Postman, elaborating on Ellul, saw technology (primarily, but not exclusively, in the shape of computer) striving for world domination and that technology has been for a long time the god of humans. ... Postman, in short, crosses field to make his point drawing on literature, folklore, myths, theology, anthropology, sociology, computer science (e.g. ... Wh...

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Literatures 1. The new economy requires innovation to gaining competitive advantage When we talk about the new economy, we're talking about a world in which people work with their brains instead of their hands; a world in which communications technology creates global competition - not just for running shoes and laptop computers, but also for bank loans and other services that can't be packed into a crate and shipped; a world in which innovation is more important than mass production; a world in which investment buys new concepts or the means to create them, rather than new m...

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They are a move towards the superior being described to us in literature and the countless films made about dystopian futures. ... He developed this idea during his time spent in a Siberian prison, which seems fitting as it highlights a main cause for our evolution; eliminating suffering from our lives, whether that be disease, poverty or social injustice. ...

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