My Response To Nartonis' Answer To Postman'S Technopoly

Eliot George , from “Middlemarch” in Bartlett's Familiar Ouotations, 16th Edition, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1992, p. 483, line 29.

Postman Neil , Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1992.

Postman Neil , Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1992, p. 20.

Nartonis, David K. , “An Answer to Neil Postman's Technopoly,” Bull. Sci. Tech. Soc. 13, 67-70 (1993).

Cahoone, Lawrence E. , The Dilemma of Modernity: Philosophy, Culture, and Anti-Culture. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1988.

Op. cit., Nartonis, p. 69.

Op. cit., Nartonis, p. 69.

Borgmann Albert , Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life, The University of Chicago Press Chicago, IL, 1984.

Borgmann Albert , Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life, The University of Chicago Press Chicago, IL, p. 9.

Borgmann Albert , Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life, The University of Chicago Press Chicago, IL, p. 9.

MacKenzie Donald and Judy Wajcman , eds., The Social Shaping of Technology; How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum, Milton Keynse: Open University Press, London, 1985, p. 4.

Misa, Thomas J. , “How Machines Made History, and How Historians (and Others) Helped Them to Do So,” Sci. Tech., & Human Values. 13, (3&4), 309 (Summer & Autumn 1988).

Ellul Jacques , The Technological Society, trans., Wilkinson John , Knopf Alfred A. , New York, NY, 1964.

Op. cit. Borgmann, p. 9.

Op. cit. Borgmann, p. 10.

Noble, David F. , Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1984, pp. 199-203.

Noble, David F. America By Design: Science, Technology and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism, Knopf Alfred A. , New York, NY, 1977, p. xviii.

McGaw, Judith A. , Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1987, p. 6.

Op. cit., Misa, p. 322.

Op. cit., Borgmann, p. 11.

Op. cit., Borgmann, p. 11.

Op. cit., Misa, p. 322.

Op. cit., Misa, p. 309.

Op. cit., Borgmann, p. 15.

Hughes, Thomas P. , “The Evolution of Large Technological Systems,” in The Social Construction of Technological Systems eds., Bijker W.E. Hughes T.P. , Pinch T.J. , MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987. pp. 76-80.

Hughes, Thomas P. , “The Evolution of Large Technological Systems,” in The Social Construction of Technological Systems eds., Bijker W.E. Hughes T.P. , Pinch T.J. , MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987, p. 76.

Op. cit., Misa, p. 318.

Op. cit., Borgmann, p. 15.

Op. cit., Borgmann, p. 106.

Op. cit., Borgmann, p. 105.

Op. cit., Misa, p. 310.

Op. cit., Postman, p. 106.

Op. cit., Postman p. 179.

Op. cit., Nartonis, p. 69.

Tatum, Jesse S. , “Technology and Values: Getting beyond the 'Device Paradigm' Impasse,” Sci. Tech., & Human Values, 19, (1), (Winter 1994).

Moriarty Gene , “Ethics, Ethos, and Engineering,” submitted to the Journal of Business and Professional Ethics.

Zimmerman, Michael E. , “Deep Ecology's Mode of 'Technology Assessment',” in New Worlds, New Technologies. New Issues, eds., Cutcliffe Stephen , et. al., Lehigh University Press, Bethlehem, PA, 1992, p. 175.