Neil Postman author of The Judgement of Thamus states the story that Plato writes about in Phaedrus which is a story about Thamus, the king of a city in Upper Egypt. Postman opens his book with a legend of King Thamus and the god Theuth, who was the inventor of many things- including numbers, calculation, geometry, astronomy and writing. King Thamus  wanted to know all of the information of Theuth’s inventions but Theuth went through approval or disapproval of what Egyptians should be able to use or not.  Long story short, Theuth took certain aspects out of his inventions so that the Egyptians can learn for themselves since they thought they already knew everything.

Postman proclaims that technology redefines “freedom,” “truth,” “intelligence,” “fact,” “wisdom,” “memory,” and “history” all the words to live by. We do not pause to ask technology anything and in return it does not pause to tell us information.  Several aspects of technology can be looked at as a burden or a blessing. Some individuals take certain technologies for granted and when it is taken away that is when they find out how important it truly is to that individual. Technology makes every day tasks so incredibly easy and convenient. Every technology has negative and positive aspects but individuals need to make decisions if that certain technology device is better for the long run.