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technopower

technopower noun: skill or capability with technology.

Noun

technopower (plural technopowers)

  1. Skill or capability with technology.
    • Both the USA and Russia like to demonstrate their technopower and indulge in narratives of technological infallibility and the highest potency of human power, control, cool detachment and rationality.2000, Mette Bryld, Nina Lykke, Cosmodolphins: Feminist Cultural Studies of Technology, Animals, and the Sacred, Zed Books, →ISBN, page 15
    • Like an old cowboy myth, human space travel is a ritualistic display of basic technopower.2005, Lee Worth Bailey, The Enchantments of Technology, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 139

Forms of technopower

pluraltechnopowers

Origin of technopower

From techno- + power.

Questions about technopower

What does technopower mean?
Technopower means skill or capability with technology.
What part of speech is technopower?
Technopower is a noun.
What is the plural of technopower?
The plural of technopower is technopowers.

Words near technopower in the dictionary

  1. technoporn
  2. technopositive
  3. technopositivism
  4. technopositivist
  5. technopositivists
  6. technopower
  7. technopowers
  8. technopreneur
  9. technopreneurial
  10. technopreneurism
  11. technopreneurs

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