Technopoly and singularity; aren't they the same thing? If technology was a mother, these two words would her identical twins she's always mixing up and calling by the wrong names. We keep going over the same thing!
In all seriousness though, technopoly can be an elaboration of singuarlity. Singularity told us that one day we will be over run by technology and technopoly tells us that it is because human's can think and have judgements therefore become counterproductive. Postman said, "the culture seeks its authorisation in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology" and later goes on to say that technology will use us and we will become the tools that technology uses rather than vice versa. Which makes me think it is very ironic that in Brave New World they worship a person rather than a type of machine.
They worship the man that made the technology. Does this mean that one day when singularity is a reality we will worship Bill Gates? Will we worship Raymon Kurzweil? Or maybe even Benjamin Franklin for his electricity experiment with a kite in a storm that started it all?
It's extremely obviously that technopoly is up and running in Brave New World along with his running buddy singularity. It is obvious that, as Postman was portraying, there are no individual experiences, just technological ones.
