technophile

Noun

technophile (plural technophiles)

1. A person who is enthusiastic about technology, especially the technology of emerging fields such as aeronautics, space engineering, computing, or communication technology, during their respective phases of introduction and development.
   • Most of us simply ignore technology in its depth effects; the few who don't ignore it tend either to glow with technophilia. . . or to glower with technophobia. . . But both technophilia and technophobia are superstitious relapses in which, let me repeat, we impute to the dynamic a direction that...1966 Editor. Ingenor, Autumn 1966 p.30, College of engineering, University of Michigan
   • It is naive to think it likely that technology can be phased out in a smoothly managed, orderly way, especially since the technophiles will fight stubbornly at every step.1995, Theodore Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future