One Thing to Know About Technological Change

I agree with Neil Postman's fourth point of inventions changing everything and not just some things, but I have a very different view on who is to blame. Instead of pretending to be the victim, people should praise inventors for taking hold of American opportunity. Certainly Ford and Bell had a pursuit of happiness, but to assume that they could avoid the unpredictable negative effects this would have on the world is absurd. If they didn't invent it, someone else would have, and therefore taken the profits for him or herself. To say that Capitalists should be disciplined is to say someone else should decide who benefits from their invention and who does not. This is discriminating the positive and negative effects without eliminating the problems. If inventions give others an edge over us, we only have ourselves to blame for not finding how we can take advantage of it.