ABSTRACT
Neil Postman claims that the modern electronic communication system, which makes time and distance obsolete, the Age of Show Business, is a poor replacement for the printed Age of Exposition, a mode of thought, a method of learning and a means of expression. And this new Age of Show Business loses almost all of the characteristics that are associated with the nature of discourse. Postman's academic career began in 1959 in an English Education class called American English Grammar. He traces the history of childhood and, after describing the historical development of the conception and social manifestation of modern childhood from the Renaissance, and spurred by the invention of print, he points out the ways television erases the dividing line between childhood and adulthood. In Technopoly, Postman analyses when, how and why technology has become a particularly dangerous enemy. Technopoly, in Postman's view, is not only a state of culture, but also a state of mind.
