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techno-futurist en · ADJ

Etymology

From techno- + future + -ist.

Meanings

1. Characteristic of or pertaining to techno-futurism.
   • This chapter extends traditional functionalist approaches to design to engage cultural, experience-based, and techno-futurist approaches. 2015, Woodrow Barfield, Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality, page 32:
   • In graduate school, I became engaged with bioethics as a domain where techno-futurist questions about genetic engineering and neuroscience were running up against practical politics and law, cutting across the traditional Left/Right division with new philosophical challenges about personhood and identity to which Buddhist metaphysics seemed deeply relevant. 2014, C. Mercer, D. Maher, Transhumanism and the Body: The World Religions Speak, page xi:
   • The techno-futurist quest for life extension is an attempt to open out the lifespan of the individual so as to be continuous with the linear temporality of capitalist production. 2016, Charles Thorpe, Necroculture, page 120:

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techno-futuristic · technofuturistic

techno-futurist en · NOUN

Etymology

From techno- + future + -ist.

Meanings

1. A proponent of techno-futurism.
   • Now, a hodgepodge of religious conservatives and techno-futurists are leading the United States into the fray. 2025 June 15, Anna Louie Sussman, “A Bold Idea to Raise the Birthrate: Make Parenting Less Torturous”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • Techno-futurists, or at least some of these techno-futurists, thus believed they were being forced to stare at the basilisk; either choosing to do nothing and earn the torment of the AI, or making the enforced decision to slave away for its future existence. 2023, James B. Miles, AI and the End of Humanity, page 168:
   • The techno-futurists "transcend" the dialectic between capital and labor merely by denying labor. Their mystification of technology is an intellectual reflection of the commodity fetishism that arises from market relations. 2016, Charles Thorpe, Necroculture, page 136:
   • 'Hey, I'm not the one trying to live forever here,' she said. 'I'm not a survivalist. I'm not a fucking techno-futurist. I know I'm going to die. I'm fine with that.' 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 200:

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