Neil Postman, writer, educator, critic and communication theorist, has written many books, including Technopoly. Postman is one of America's most visible cultural critics, attempting to analyze culture and history in terms of the effects of technology on Western culture. For Postman, it seems more important to consider what society loses from new technologies rather than what it gains. To illustrate this, Postman uses Egyptian mythology called “The Judgment of Thamus,” which attempts to explain how the development of writing in Egyptian civilization decreased the amount of knowledge and wisdom in society. Traces the roots of technology to show how technology affects people's moral and intellectual attitudes. The postman seems to criticize societies with high technologies, but seems naive about the benefits that technology has brought to society. Postman can be considered quite conservative in his views regarding technology. His lucid writing style stimulates reflection on issues in today's technological society; however, due to its moral interpretations and historical revisions, its ethics are questionable. For every good insight he makes, he completely skips another mark. The postman divides the story into three types. He begins his argument by discussing tool-using cultures. In these cultures, technology has an “ideological bias” against taking action that users don't think about. He says this is a time of “logic, sequence, objectivity, detachment, and discipline,” in which historical figures such as Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and others clung to the theology of their era. This was a world with God, who cared about truth and not power. The postman notes that the mass production of books and the invention of printing pre...... half of paper...... Review. v42 n18 (September 14, 1992) Copyright National review Inc.:58.Lubar, Steven." Engines of Change: America's Industrial Revolution 1790-1860." Smithsonian Institution. http://www.si.sgi.com/organiza/museums/nmah/homepage/docs/engin10.htm (1986).Mack, John. Out of Many, v 2, Prenther-Hall, Inc (1995): 405-423.Moulthrop, Stuart. “Very Book-Like” Cable Subscribers. Wired ventures LTD.http://www.hotwired.com/wired/3.11/departments/moulthrop.if.html (1995). Ravvin, David. “Without judgment or morality, technology becomes God” (I couldn't get online, so I couldn't get the address again when I went to do so - it kept saying file not found). Stella, Alexander. "Technopoly: the surrender of culture to technology". New Republic. v207 n5 (July 27, 1992):59.Weir, Stuart. Nation. v255, n6 (August 31, 1992) The Nation Company Inc.: 216.