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fauxtomation

fauxtomation noun: processes or products that are not fully automated, but are marketed or sold as such.

Noun

fauxtomation (uncountable)

  1. (neologism) Processes or products that are not fully automated, but are marketed or sold as such.
    • In its more harmless form, fauxtomation is merely a marketing ploy, a way to make pointless products seem cutting-edge.2018 August, Astra Taylor, “The Automation Charade”, in Logic Magazine, number 5
    • Fauxtomation does not directly replace human labor; rather, it relocates and disperses it in space and time.2021, Kate Crawford, chapter 2, in Atlas of AI […] , →ISBN

Origin of fauxtomation

Blend of faux + automation, coined by Astra Taylor.

Questions about fauxtomation

What does fauxtomation mean?
Fauxtomation means processes or products that are not fully automated, but are marketed or sold as such.
What part of speech is fauxtomation?
Fauxtomation is a noun.

Words near fauxtomation in the dictionary

  1. fauxtina
  2. fauxtism
  3. fauxtograph
  4. fauxtographs
  5. fauxtography
  6. fauxtomation
  7. Fauzia
  8. fav
  9. fav'rite
  10. fava
  11. fava bean

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