Meanings
plural technophobes
- Somebody who suffers from technophobia; somebody afraid of new technology.
My Dad can't answer his mobile phone. He's a real technophobe.
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"It's kind of unfortunate that it depends on spectacular violence by somebody, or whoever it is, to get it into print," said that man, John Zerzan, a leading pamphleteer and self-described anarchist and technophobe who has become a guru of sorts for anti-technology leftists.
1995 May 7, Kenneth B. Noble, “Prominent Anarchist Finds Unsought Ally in Serial Bomber”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
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