technorati

What it means

1. informalpluralplural onlyThose who are skilled at using, or knowledgeable about, technology.

   The Winklevosses say this week’s tumult is just growing pains for a digital currency that they believe will become a sort of gold for the technorati.

   2013 April 11, Nathaniel Popper, Peter Lattman, “Never Mind Facebook; Winklevoss Twins Rule in Digital Money”, in New York Times

   1 more example

   ‘The clash is between what you might call the technorati and the literati,’ wrote Bob Thompson in The Washington Post shortly after Updike's speech. ‘The technorati are thrilled at the way computers and the Internet are revolutionizing the world of books. The literati fear that, amid the revolutionary fervor, crucial institutions and core values will be guillotined.’

   2008, Jeff Gomez, quoting Bob Thompson, Print Is Dead: Books in our Digital Age, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN

   Synonyms: digerati

In a sentence

‘The clash is between what you might call the technorati and the literati,’ wrote Bob Thompson in The Washington Post shortly after Updike's speech. ‘The technorati are thrilled at the way computers and the Internet are revolutionizing the world of books. The literati fear that, amid the revolutionary fervor, crucial institutions and core values will be guillotined.’

2008, Jeff Gomez, quoting Bob Thompson, Print Is Dead: Books in our Digital Age, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN

Where it comes from

Blend of technology + literati.