In the article "The Judgement of Thamus" by Neil Postman's, the author uses the tale of King Thamus found in Plato's “Phaedrus” to make his arguments about the effects of technology it has on people. Postman says that Thamus is in error when he finds only fault with the technology of writing, and that he would be careless if he only considered the negative effects of technology without looking at the positive. One of the main claims that Postman makes in this article is that technology is not neither good nor bad. Instead Postman claims that the impact of technology depends on we how are use them. Postman also states that technology is changing how we think and that if we don’t want that to happened we must join in on the conversation of
