technocritic

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noun

A critic who studies the effects of technology.

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Meanings

nountechnocritic (plural technocritics)

plural technocritics

  1. A critic who studies the effects of technology.

    This Option seems to appear everywhere for technophiles and is becoming inevitable for the technophobic and dedicated technocritic.

    2007, Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Agustín Laó-Montes, Technofuturos: critical interventions in Latina/o studies, page 338
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    In the mid-1990s, technocritics worried that using the Internet would be like “drinking from a firehose,” as Cliff Stoll put it.

    2008 June 29, Virginia Heffernan, “The Oracle Collective”, in New York Times

Origin

From techno- + critic.

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technocritic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/technocritic

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“technocritic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/technocritic. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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