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neophilia

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neophilia - /nee"oh-fil"-ee-*/ The trait of being excited and pleased by novelty. Common among most hackers, SF fans, and members of several other connected leading-edge subcultures, including the pro-technology "Whole Earth" wing of the ecology movement, space activists, many members of Mensa, and the Discordian/neo-pagan underground. All these groups overlap heavily and (where evidence is available) seem to share characteristic hacker tropisms for science fiction, music, and oriental food. The opposite tendency is "neophobia".
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One of the most dismal but revealing features of Finn's book is his documentation of the trendy "Progressive" neophilia that has increasingly dominated our teachers' colleges and schools of education since the 1920s.
A real education reformer by Aeschliman, M. D. / Modern Age
They said people who always want to trade in their iPods, computers and cars for the latest models are victims of a genetic affliction called neophilia.
Gadget maniacs are 'sick' by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
The chief consequence of setting these as program goals, and of then defining computer literacy as the means to information is neophilia.
Technorealism: the rhetoric and reality of technology in teacher ... by White, Cameron / Journal of Technology and Teacher Education
 
 
 
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