techno-utopian

adjective

Believing that technological advances will create a utopia.

Meanings

adjectivetechno-utopian (comparative more techno-utopian, superlative most techno-utopian)

comparative more techno-utopian · superlative most techno-utopian · alternative technoutopian · alternative technotopian

  1. Believing that technological advances will create a utopia.

    Bitcoin represents a techno-utopian dream.

    2022 June 7, Siobhan Roberts, “How ‘Trustless’ Is Bitcoin, Really?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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    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.

    1994, Arthur Kroker, Michael A. Weinstein, Data Trash, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, pages 6–7
nountechno-utopian (plural techno-utopians)

plural techno-utopians · alternative technoutopian · alternative technotopian

  1. A person of techno-utopian beliefs.

    Techno-utopians point to the fact that in 1940 the average American farmer fed 19 people, while today each farmer feeds 129 fellow citizens.

    2018, Michael Robertson, The Last Utopians […] , Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 263

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*teḱ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*tetḱ-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*téḱ-sneh₂
  4. Ancient Greekτέχνη (tékhnē)
  5. Ancient Greekτεχνο- (tekhno-)
  6. Englishtechno-
  7. Ancient Greekοὐ (ou)
  8. Ancient Greekτόπος (tópos)
  9. New LatinŪtopia
  10. Englishutopia
  11. Englishutopian
  12. Englishtechno-utopian

From techno- + utopian.

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