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technocritic

technocritic noun: a critic who studies the effects of technology.

Noun

technocritic (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
    • 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

Forms of technocritic

pluraltechnocritics

Origin of technocritic

From techno- + critic.

Questions about technocritic

What does technocritic mean?
Technocritic means a critic who studies the effects of technology.
What part of speech is technocritic?
Technocritic is a noun.
What is the plural of technocritic?
The plural of technocritic is technocritics.

Words near technocritic in the dictionary

  1. technocratize
  2. technocratized
  3. technocratizes
  4. technocratizing
  5. technocrats
  6. technocritic
  7. technocritical
  8. technocriticism
  9. technocritics
  10. technocultural
  11. technoculturally

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