techno-futurist

English

Etymology

From techno- +‎ future +‎ -ist.

Noun

techno-futurist (plural techno-futurists)

1. A proponent of techno-futurism.
   • 2016, Charles Thorpe, Necroculture, page 136:

     The techno-futurists "transcend" the dialectic between capital and labor merely by denying labor. Their mystification of technology is an intellectual reflection of the commodity fetishism that arises from market relations.

   • 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 200:

     'Hey, I'm not the one trying to live forever here,' she said. 'I'm not a survivalist. I'm not a fucking techno-futurist. I know I'm going to die. I'm fine with that.'

   • 2023, James B. Miles, AI and the End of Humanity, page 168:

     Techno-futurists, or at least some of these techno-futurists, thus believed they were being forced to stare at the basilisk; either choosing to do nothing and earn the torment of the AI, or making the enforced decision to slave away for its future existence.

Adjective

techno-futurist (comparative more techno-futurist, superlative most techno-futurist)

1. Characteristic of or pertaining to techno-futurism.
   • 2014, C. Mercer, D. Maher, Transhumanism and the Body: The World Religions Speak, page xi:

     In graduate school, I became engaged with bioethics as a domain where techno-futurist questions about genetic engineering and neuroscience were running up against practical politics and law, cutting across the traditional Left/Right division with new philosophical challenges about personhood and identity to which Buddhist metaphysics seemed deeply relevant.

   • 2015, Woodrow Barfield, Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality, page 32:

     This chapter extends traditional functionalist approaches to design to engage cultural, experience-based, and techno-futurist approaches.

   • 2016, Charles Thorpe, Necroculture, page 120:

     The techno-futurist quest for life extension is an attempt to open out the lifespan of the individual so as to be continuous with the linear temporality of capitalist production.