During Postman's interview he quotes a professor at MIT, "In the next millennium, we will find we are talking more with machines, than we are with humans." In his book he quotes the second commandment, "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water beneath the earth." When people talk more to machines and pay attention to them more than humans, we are creating new gods in all technology. By creating machines and placing them before humans and God, we are essentially increasing the process of Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Postman discusses cloning in his interview. He says it will soon be a main idea in our world. He states that people will rely on clones to be able to fix their body parts if something goes wrong. For example, he says if someone needs a kidney or a lung you can take it from the clone. By doing this we would become selfish. In his book he says people only care about their outward appearance. Postman is convinced that in the future our image will become the most important thing to us and we will become unaware of the things around us.
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