Technopoly

Within reading the first page I could see the relationship that this article had with the Brave New World. The main idea is basically that innovations in each generation and can shape or change a society. In the chapter in talks about a technopoly, which is basically a society that is based around society. This culture seeks its authorisation in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology. In the Novel, technopoly is not as inefficient as we see it, because in the novel everything is based off of pleasure and efficiency. Postman explains that a technocracy ”is, a society only loosely controlled by social custom and religious tradition and driven by the impulse to invent- an “unseen hand” will eliminate the incompetent and reward those who produce cheaply and well the goods tat people want.” Basically what this quote is saying is that as long as the workers do what hey are supposed to and keep up, they can do whatever they want and have all the pleasure they desire.

            Kurzweil in a Brave New World believes when all machines were built that they would eventually take over. Instead the humans being the masters of the tools, technology would be the master of the human race. Now Neil Postman on the other hand looks at things in just a little bit different way, he thinks that tools will never be the masters, just always the tool. But it still is conveincing how Kurzweil can even come up with a date when this overthrow will happen.

Human vs Tech

            How much longer do us human’s have before technology takes over? We will never know exactly when they will take over. Do we even know for sure that they will? No, there is no way to know for sure, but we can guess and make assumptions about technology. We can all agree that technology is getting more and more entangled in our ever day lives. Making it easier and easier for it took flip on us. Everyday that way waste on relying on technology the more connected and the more it learns about us.

            In the article, 2045: The Year Man becomes Mortal; it states that “Computers are getting faster. Everybody knows that. Also, computers are getting faster faster-that is, the rate at which they’re getting faster is increasing. “This states exactly what I am saying, that technology is getting faster and smarter, and maybe it would not be a bad idea to take a break from technology or maybe just back off a little. That could possibly slow things down, but also make things simpler.  When the article explains how the 17 year old boy talks about how computers are going to take over the human race, it’s a little weird. I think that it’s a very good thing that man is merging with technology to a certain degree. There comes a point where when get to lazy because of technology that it is defiantly not a good thing. In medicine, it has defiantly a great thing, technology has saved many lives.

            We can only wait for the moment that technology is supposed to “take over the world”. I feel pretty comfortable that this will not happen for a long time. As long as we can stay on top of what we create, we humans will be ok.

Trevor Clayton

Rhetorical Analysis

 

I read the Poetic Structure in Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening". It was very well stated and structured. It talked about how the entire poem was about suicide, but the author did not realize what he was writing about until the poem was further analyzed. The article had an intro, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Each body paragraph talked about a piece of the poem. It had a lot of commentary, but only had one concrete detail to each body paragraph. The first one analyzed how the author of the poem didn’t use punctuation in some of his sentences. The second body paragraph talked about how he put emphasizes on pronouns. The third one was about how he switched from iambic feet to pyrrhic feet throughout the article.  This essay never gave me any surprises it stuck to a format of having one concrete detail in every paragraph and then having commentary to follow it.

 

            The article, Poetic Structure in Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" ended up surprising me on how the meaning was switched around. The author never knew that he was writing about suicide. That to me is astonishing that someone is able to write an entire poem without realizes the true meaning of the poem. Sure he started the poem with a theme in mind, but some where in the poem he lost himself and started writing about something new. I thought that the poem was going to be about trees, nature and enjoying life, but no it was about suicide. It was a shock to me how it just changed dramatically. The way the article was formed was not a surprise though because he followed the same thing that he started as in the first body paragraph.

 

            The article is just about analyzing weither the poem was about suicide or was the narrator is simply looking over the scenery. We will never know, we can only base what we know off of our own studies or off of what other people have researched on the making of this confusing poem. Confusing is a good word to desribe what the article was about, because it states at the beginning about not knowing which way the author was leaning; either suicide or just checking out the scenery.  The author, Robert Frost, never clearly stated which side he was on. This made his article weak, this article was not necessarily made for the reason of persuading people, but you should always be on a clear side. Not being on a side can make you look weak or indecisive.

 

            I think that this article was overall very well written, Robert Frost stayed with the format he started with in the beginning and made rock solid  conrete details supported by tons of commentary. The only weakness would be that he didn’t ever pick whether the poem was made with the theme of suicide in mind or was the narrator is simply looking over the scenery…