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technopolies

technopolies is the plural of technopoly.

Meaning of technopoly

Noun

technopoly (plural technopolies)

  1. 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

Questions about technopolies

What is technopolies the plural of?
Technopolies is the plural of technopoly.

Words near technopolies in the dictionary

  1. technophoria
  2. technoplegic
  3. technoplegics
  4. technopole
  5. technopoleis
  6. technopolies
  7. technopolis
  8. technopolises
  9. technopolitical
  10. technopolitics
  11. technopoly

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