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postdigital

postdigital adjective: of or relating to a movement that renounces digital technology in favour of a return to a human approach.

Adjective

postdigital (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a movement that renounces digital technology in favour of a return to a human approach.
    • The essayist Wolf Lotter understands «postdigital» not as the end of digitalization, but as the end of the myth of digitalization. In the postdigital age after techlash, people are developing a radically pragmatic attitude toward all things digital.2020, Thomas Ramge, Postdigital: Using AI to Fight Coronavirus, Foster Wealth and Fuel Democracy, Murmann Publishers GmbH, →ISBN

Forms of postdigital

alternative formpost-digital

Origin of postdigital

From post- + digital.

Questions about postdigital

What does postdigital mean?
Postdigital means of or relating to a movement that renounces digital technology in favour of a return to a human approach.
What part of speech is postdigital?
Postdigital is an adjective.

Words near postdigital in the dictionary

  1. postdictors
  2. postdicts
  3. postdifferentiation
  4. postdigestion
  5. postdigestive
  6. postdigital
  7. postdilatation
  8. postdilatations
  9. postdilate
  10. postdilated
  11. postdilation

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