Neil Postman

One point that Postman reiterates from his book is the idea that we are becoming a nation consumed with the technology.  In Amusing Ourselves to Death, Postman talks about the cities that used to define us: New York City, Chicago, and Boston.  All these cities reflected moral values and hard work.  Today, however, we are best reprented by Las Vegas, a city consumed with entertainment and being amused, representing the major change in society's values.  Continuing the same idea in his speech, Postman calls us "pets" of technology; we are consumed with them.  No longer using them to benefit our hard work, they often use us.  We have become consumed by technology and using it in every aspect of life 

Postman also remains constant in his idea that society is becoming too superficial.  In his book, he discusses how how William Howard Taft was not taken as seriously because of his weight.  He was judged and discriminated against.  In the same way, society is now even more focused on the superficial with their obsession with cloning.  Trying to eliminate all flaws, cloning is being used incredibly superficially.