Meanings
plural technopolies
- The cultural state of mind that assumes technology is always positive and of value.
In formulating such questions, Graham builds on an earlier critique of ‘technopoly’ by Neil Postman, who suggested that we should always ask of any new technology the following question: what is the problem to which it is a solution? Postman defined technopoly as ‘a state of culture’.
2016, Marilyn Deegan, Kathryn Sutherland, Transferred Illusions: Digital Technology and the Forms of Print, Routledge, →ISBN, page 68
Origin
From techno- + -poly, coined by American writer and academic Neil Postman in Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992).
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