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Review Of Neil Postman's Five Things We Need To Know About Technological Change

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Technological change is not additive, but it is, instead ecological. This statement by Neil Postman in his “Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change” (Postman, 1998) clearly states his perspective on new technologies and all the goodness that come with them. First of all, when a new technology is introduced and put in use, it is not merely an addition to the existing infrastructure system on which it was developed. In fact, there will be lots of changes from inside that will end up in transforming the whole system itself. This internal transformation will begin to have effects on other systems that have interconnections with each other. Eventually, other systems that do not relate or have connections with the changing systems, but co-exist in the same ecology will have to adjust …show more content…

Change in transportation is evident: people enjoy faster and safe mean of transportation, which take them from one side of the world to another side in shorter time than ever. (Goldman, 2012) Changes in related industries are a little more complicated to figure out, but not quite impossible. Contractors had to come up with new materials and building technology to meet new requirements so that airplanes could safely take off and land. Boeing and their vendors also had to re-evaluate the way they build an airplane, which consisted of thousand parts and could be shipped from various places all over the world. In addition, airliners and airport authorities gradually come up with ideas to share information easier and faster between departure and arrival destinations. (JOHANSON, 2014) Therefore, for the last fifty years of the twentieth century, the world has observed major changes in almost every aspect of transportation, communication, construction, and

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