neil postman talks about the dependence of americans on technological advances. in its program we originally showed in 1992, he argues that americans have come to expect technological and the patience to solve larger problems of mankind and that the belief in the power of technology has become a national religion. this is about an hour. c-span: neil postman, author of "technopoly: the surrender of culture to technology," what's your book all about? >> guest: the tendency in american culture to turn over to technology sovereignty, command, control over all of our social institutions. in other words, the book is about how american has developed a new religion, as it were, and the religion is its faith in that human progress and technological innovation are the same thing and that paradise can be achieved through greater and greater commitment to technology. c-span: what is technology? >> guest: i had to define it in the book rather broadly because not only do i include machinery like television and computers and all of that, but also techniques. i call them invisib

it's called "technopoly", and our guest is neil postman. thank you very much for joining us. >> guest: thank you, brian. .. and in the white house. caroline kennedy presents her mother's recordings next followed a panel discussion that includes michael beschloss, ted widmer and richard trained 10. >> the evening. you've read the news stories, but your copies at the book, watched the abc primetime special, morning television and even "the daily show" with jon stewart. and now tonight, live from the kennedy library, with its early history was so carefully house for the past half-century, we hear directly from jacqueline kennedy about her life with our 35th president and from their daughter who has practiced by state to history today. and tom putnam, director of the john f. kennedy presidential library museum and our behalf of the executive director of the kennedy library foundation, members of our foundation board and many of whom are here with us tonight and all of my library and foundation colleagues, a thank you for coming in on those watc