A Technocracy, as Postman defines it, is a society that is not completely controlled by tradition and culture and that is driven to invent. On the other hand Postman describes Technopoly, which he believes to be a society in which they release all forms of traditional and cultural life to technology. He also says that in a Technopoly all that society already knows is changed. Postman states that it redefines "what we mean by religion, by art, by family, by politics, by history, by truth, by privacy, by intelligence, so that our definitions fit its new requirements"(Postman 48). in my opinion, this is exactly what Huxley creates in Brave New World.
I believe there is many connections to Brave New World in Postman's chapter "From Technocracy to Technopoly". Postman discusses how the textile industry eliminated "skilled works, replacing them with workers who merely kept the machines operating"(Postman 42). In Brave New World they altered each human to do a certain job and to have a certain amount of intelligence. They would purposely make people unintelligent in order to better equip them for specific jobs. Postman also talks about how things were made, about the "transformation from small-scale, personalized, skilled labor to large-scale, impersonal, mechanized production"(Postman 41). People began to not care about the natural and more personal way of doing things, but just the efficiency in which it was done. This completely relates to how babies were made in Brave New World. Instead of creating a baby the 'old-fashioned way', they made babies in an assembly line. This new more effective process eliminated physical contact and human emotions from the once meaningful process. It was acceptable for people "to be treated as if they were machinery"(Postman 52). This is much related to the ideals in Brave New World. Because people where so easily created, society did not care much about others. It was irrelevant if someone died because twenty people just like them were leaving the factory, reading for society to use them as they please. Postman's ideas can be easily linted to Huxley's in Brave New World.
