Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World · chapter 2 · id deep-work-c2-07-newport-draws-on-neil-postmans

“Newport draws on Neil Postman's 'Technopoly' (1992) to argue technology is adopted uncritically in knowledge work environments, where deep work values like craftsmanship are marginalized.”

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Postman -- Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992)source alive

Postman defines technopoly as a society where 'the culture seeks its authorisation in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.'

Cal Newport -- Standing Up to Technology (blog)source alive

Newport explicitly cites Postman: deep work is 'at a severe disadvantage in a technopoly because it builds on values like quality, craftsmanship, and mastery that are decidedly old-fashioned and nontechnological.'

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