techno-futurism

noun

The belief in and pursuit of new and speculative technological solutions to problems and to the extension or betterment of life.

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Meanings

nountechno-futurism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe belief in and pursuit of new and speculative technological solutions to problems and to the extension or betterment of life.

    This techno-futurism is telling the Taiwanese people a technological science story about hopes, threats, and relations.

    2018, Kuan-Hung Lo, “Selling Techno-futurism: Exploring Pepper's Images and Discourses Taiwanese News Media Make”, in Adrian David Cheok, David Levy, editor, Love and Sex with Robots, page 83
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    Techno-futurism is an extreme scientism, in the sense of treating science as superior to all other forms of knowledge and culture and as holding the answers to all human problems.

    2016, Charles Thorpe, Necroculture, page 120

    Forget the bunker, foreget everything he'd planned to write about survivalism, and growth hacking, and techno-futurism, and imperial-stage-capitalist decline, and New Zealand's pathetically obsequious courting of the super-rich.

    2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 238

Origin

From techno- + future + -ism.

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