English edit

Etymology edit

techno- +‎ critic

Noun edit

technocritic (plural technocritics)

  1. A critic who studies the effects of technology.
    • 2007, Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Agustín Laó-Montes, Technofuturos: critical interventions in Latina/o studies, page 338:
      This Option seems to appear everywhere for technophiles and is becoming inevitable for the technophobic and dedicated technocritic.
    • 2008 June 29, Virginia Heffernan, “The Oracle Collective”, in New York Times[1]:
      In the mid-1990s, technocritics worried that using the Internet would be like “drinking from a firehose,” as Cliff Stoll put it.