techno-utopian

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See also: technoutopian

English

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Etymology

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From techno- +‎ utopian.

Adjective

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

  1. Believing that technological advances will create a utopia.
    • 1994, Arthur Kroker, Michael A. Weinstein, Data Trash, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, pages 6–7:
      Representing perfectly the expansionary interests of the recombinant commodity-form, the virtual class has seized the imagination of contemporary culture by conceiving a techno-utopian high-speed cybernetic grid for travelling across the electronic frontier.
    • 2022 June 7, Siobhan Roberts, “How ‘Trustless’ Is Bitcoin, Really?”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      Bitcoin represents a techno-utopian dream.

Noun

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techno-utopian (plural techno-utopians)

  1. A person of techno-utopian beliefs.
    • 2018, Michael Robertson, The Last Utopians [] , Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 263:
      Techno-utopians point to the fact that in 1940 the average American farmer fed 19 people, while today each farmer feeds 129 fellow citizens.
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