technopoly
English
editEtymology
editFrom techno- + -poly, coined by American writer and academic Neil Postman in Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittechnopoly (plural technopolies)
- 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’.