The mass media critic (1931-2003) was called "prolific and influential" in the NYT obituary. He published this late book on the Technopoly in 1992 "to describe, how, and why technology", although being "both friend and enemy", ultimately "became a particularly dangerous enemy", following in the footsteps of like-minded spirits such as Lewis Mumford, Arnold Gehlen or Ivan Illich. Technopoly "is totalitarian technocracy", puts "Old World values" on the extinction list and strives to establish a "technological theology" (46-50).