techno-fundamentalist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From techno- + fundamentalist.
Adjective
[edit]techno-fundamentalist (comparative more techno-fundamentalist, superlative most techno-fundamentalist)
- (uncommon) Of or pertaining to techno-fundamentalism.
- 2011, Siva Vaidhyanathan, “Copyright Jungle”, in Alison Alexander, Jarice Hanson, editors, Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Mass Media and Society, 11th edition, McGraw-Hill, page 107:
- Such heady predictions of technological revolution have become so com¬ mon, so accepted in our techno-fundamentalist culture, that even when John Updike criticized Kelly's vision in an essay published a month later in The New York Times Book Review , he did not so much doubt Kelly's vision of a universal digital library as lament it.
- 2013, Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, Kylie Jarrett, “Savvy Searchers, Faithful Acolytes, “Don’t be Evil”” (chapter 7), in Google and the Culture of Search, Routledge, page 187:
- Vaidhyanathan suggests that “techno-fundamentalist” faith in technology has led to much suffering, noting that, for Dante, pride was the gravest of the seven deadly sins.
- 2013, Neil Selwyn, Distrusting Educational Technology: Critical Questions for Changing Times, Taylor & Francis, page 49:
- As such the techno-fundamentalist mindset reflects an implicit belief that technology offers a means to substantially improve current forms of everyday life and social relations — including education.