technopoly

English

Etymology

From techno- +‎ -poly, coined by American writer and academic Neil Postman in Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tɛkˈnɒpəli/

Noun

technopoly (plural technopolies)

  1. The cultural state of mind that assumes technology is always positive and of value.
    • 2016, Marilyn Deegan, Kathryn Sutherland, Transferred Illusions: Digital Technology and the Forms of Print, Routledge, →ISBN, page 68:
      In formulating such questions, Graham builds on an earlier critique of ‘technopoly’ by Neil Postman, who suggested that we should always ask of any new technology the following question: what is the problem to which it is a solution? Postman defined technopoly as ‘a state of culture’.
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