Technophoria
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Excessive enthusiasm for technology, or excessive optimism about its possibilities. uncountable
"Near-synonym: technophilia"
Synonyms
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More examples"2011 Philip Doty, "Privacy, Reading, and Trying Out Identity: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Technological Determinism", in Privacy in America: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by William Aspray and Philip Doty, Scarecrow Press, p. 240. As is widely recognized, the technophoria of these and similar authors is all too common, with only Castells of the three offering any serious and specific critique of such enthusiasm."
Etymology
Blend of techno- + euphoria.
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