According to Postman, Technopoly is defined as "the submission of all forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique and technology." (52) He elaborates further by saying, "Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind." However, Postman defines Technocracy as a society that is not completely controlled by tradition and culture.
There are many similarities in Postman's text when compared to Huxley's Brave New World. For example, Postman discusses how the textile industry got rid of "skilled works, replacing them with workers who merely kept the machines operating" (42). In Huxley's Brave New World, the Director of Hatcheries tampered with genetics to make sure they had a controlled level of intelligence and to perform a certain task. Also, characters in Brave New World, such as Bernard, rarely question why everything happens the way it happens. “We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance” (42). No one in these totalitarian societies wants to know the why, because the societies are too focused on how or when things happen.
