Technopoly v Technacracy

      Technopoly and technacracy, two opposites dealing with technology and the two paths they will take us as a race.  Both terms are used in Neil Postman's book Technopoly.  Technacracy is path where humans are the users of technology, where we have full control over what we use. This is describes most of the world, because our technology does not have full control over us.  But a technopoly is the idea that technology controls us, it does not necessarily have to be intelligent to take control.  An example would be Brave New World where the humans in the society live to create more humans. The people do not necessarily live for themselves but rather live to work and to make more workers who are predestined to follow the footsteps of those that helped create them.  A example of where technology is used for reasons the user wishes would be 1984 where the government uses technology to spy on its citizens.  Postman believes that America has been "pushed technocracy... into a Technopoly," we at some point have become the ones being used.
      In a technopoly the workers do not have to think, and in Brave New World there is a hierarchy  in which the bottom― Epsilons and Deltas― have no need to think in whatever menial jobs that they have.  The "technique of any kind can do our thinking for us" according to Frederick Winslow Taylor in his book The Principles of Scientific Management.  Taylor tries an experiment to create an industrial workplace based on nothing but scientific reasoning and calculations or also know as scientific management.  With this Postman concludes that humans are worth nothing compared to the machines that can replace them.  With these ideas many can come to the conclusion that there is no need for humans. In the case of Brave New World the humans are only need to perform task for the machines.  These people are not "human," some will argue because they are not naturally conceived and do not naturally die, they are artificially living because their feeling are influenced heavily on soma and die when they are supposed to.  Our future with technology looks unstable, we may be erased from reality by some form of artificial intelligence, we may not, we can only watch what will happen.