Techno-fundamentalist

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.

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.

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.