SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Neil Postman, Technological Change, Omnipotence
19 Sep 2015
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In opposition to economic history and its emphasis on the importance of geography (the physical environment). incremental inventions required no mind at all. Simultaneous discoveries: once there was only a little to add to existing technologies to come up with an invention, different people would be able to make the final leap (simultaneous discoveries: bell and gray, Abbott payson usher: gilfillan presents invention as evolution: each one is a new combination of prior art and a. Neil postman: answers: postman is no longer concerned with invention, but technological change, what is important is understanding that: The modern alphabet can be traced back to stone inscriptions found in the sinai (from around the 17th- 12th centuries bce), these proto-sinaitic glyphs giving rise to a proto-canaanite alphabet that inspired the phoenician alphabet by about 1100 bce as well as various ancient arabian and ethiopic scripts.
