techno-utopian

See also: technoutopian

English

Alternative forms

• technoutopian, technotopian

Etymology

techno- +‎ utopian

Adjective

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

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.

Related terms

• techno-utopianism