Kritikus budaya sané panguntat Neil Postman minayang masyarakat sané ngawigunayang alat saking masyarakat teknologi miwah napi sané kasengguh "teknopoli," masyarakat sané akéhan ideologi kemajuan teknologi miwah ilmiah sané nepis utawi ngaonang praktik budaya, nilai, miwah pandangan dunia tiosan.
The late cultural critic Neil Postman distinguished tool-using societies from technological societies and from what he called "technopolies," societies that are dominated by the ideology of technological and scientific progress to the exclusion or harm of other cultural practices, values, and world-views.[64]