Mike Teevee: Look at me, I'll be be the first person in the world to be sent by television!

  In both the book and the video, Neil Postman has the same attitude towards the increased daily use of technology.  When he discusses the watch and that "it is a man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created" it parallels later when in the video he says," humans prefer talking to machines than people." He believes that all the unecessary technology is corrupting human relationships.  Society is becoming dependent on technology and uses that for communication rather than with each other.  Soon conversing in ways other than through technonlgy will be rare.  Like Postman said, "we will become pets of computers" and already we are unaware of our dependency on machines.
  Not only are we becoming pets but we becoming obsessed with newer and better technology.  Cloning for spare parts and the possibility of talking door knobs shows the reality of technology becoming apart of everything, even wehen it is not necessary.  Postman wonders how you can remain sane in this speeded up world.  Questions he uses to do this are like: what problem does this technology solve, who's problem is it, who will pay for it etc.  I think Mike Teevee is a good example of the point Postman is trying to convey.  He(Mike) was so eager to experience the new technonlgy of transportation through televisions he did not even consider the consequences of it.  Just like today we are eager to get the new gadget without hesitation, but is it really needed?