technopoly

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The cultural state of mind that assumes technology is always positive and of value.
    — 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’.

词形变化

technopolies plural

词源

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