Once upon a time... robots took over the human race.

Most of technology is first created for a good cause, but then eventually, something goes wrong and the whole thing goes bad. In looking at Brave New World through the point of view of Neil Postman's chapter, I discovered something new in the fact that in A Brave New World, technology is -in a way- a master of the citizens of the World State. There factories were built, at first to create an equal society. By the time that is the setting in A Brave New World, the factories have become less of a convenience and more of a way of life. Yet, Neil Postman say that "for all the dependence on machinery, tools ought to still be the servants, and not the masters." This is so extremely different from  Ray Kurzweil's ideas that it is on the other side of the solar system. Ray Kurzweil is all gung-ho for the machines taking over, he even gives us a date! Kurzweil says it will happen, Postman says that we shouldn't LET it happen- these two butt heads more than Godzilla and Mothra. Both have different ideas on the same subject. Kurzweil has his "singularity" and Postman has his "technopoly", which he defines as “totalitarian technocracy". Frederick Winslow Taylor fits into Kurzweil's side of the argument. Taylor published a book that contained the first "formal outline of the assumptions of the thought-world of Technopoly" that said that "human judgment can not be trusted, because it is plagued by laxity, ambiguity and unnecessary complexity; that subjectivity is an obstacle to clear thinking". Taylor is backing up Kurzweil's idea by saying that humans are less efficient and less intelligent than the robots and AIs that are to come. It seems strange that Neil Postman would talk about something in his book that contradicted his own ideas and supported those of his adversary, Ray Kurzweils.