Postman's Point

In both his novel Amusing Ourselves to Death, and in his interview, Postman discusses how society becomes more reliant on electronics and technology as time goes on. In his book, he compares our society to the bustling city of Las Vegas, the entertainment capital of the world, which is consumed in technology. He argues that people are becoming "pets" to their electronics. Technological advancements such as facebook and texting entertain us, but at what cost? He goes on to talk about, in his speech and in his novel, how these new ways of conversing are hardly advancements, and actually have set human kind back, and that not all advancements are actually beneficial to society.
In his novel, Postman also writes about how society's morals have tanked as a result of technology. For example, we have become more obsessed with physical appearance as a result of technology. He argues that news anchors are more concerned with how they look and their make up than with the news that they report. Also, he discusses cloning. He states that we started with monkeys, sheeps, and frogs, but that humans are the next step. The thought that our society believes that cloning is the proper response if anything at all goes wrong with a person's body is morally pathetic.