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technophile

A person who enjoys learning about and using computers and high-tech gadgets. See technophoria, computerphile, hacker and dweeb. Contrast with technophobe.
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In the words of a technophilic but precaution-prone acquaintance of mine, a computer programmer who has his wristwatch set to alert him if a tsunami approaches Manhattan: "The gray goo scenario should at least give one pause."
Neither Gods nor goo: avoiding both utopian and apocalyptic forecasts for nanotechnology
The New Wave generally adopted an anti-technocratic bent that put it at odds with the technophilic optimism of Campbellian hard SF, openly questioning if not the core values of scientific inquiry, then the larger social processes to which they had been conjoined in the service of state and corporate power.
Biotic invasions: ecological imperialism in new wave science fiction
Whether technophilic or technophobic, narratives of contemporary developments in devices, digital communications, cybernetics, and informatics regularly characterize the technology as the determining agents of social interactions.
Nonhumans unbound: actor-network theory and the reconsideration of "things" in educational foundations
Stating that as the body becomes "technophilic", the quality of subjective experience mediated by this body is bound to undergo a significant change, Haney asks, "what happens when the protagonist is no longer human in the traditional sense", or even postmodern but rather posthuman, a cyborg, "for whom the unsayable is inaccessible?" (57).
Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction: Consciousness and the Posthuman
And in faculty recruiting since the advent of the new curriculum, the program has sought out candidates who were at least technophilic if not explicitly credentialed as database marketers.
A discontinuous curricular innovation: market database development
A decade on, "Heat" finally has a DVD to match its technophilic grit.
Heat
The experience of working with these technophilic high-rollers apparently also drove the development of iBetX's
Net Prophet: iBetX chief Mirza offers a bet-bot for every home
And while there has perhaps always been an optimistic, technophilic strain in that genre, as for example in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward or in such space odysseys as Star Trek and Star Wars, the tendency of science fiction has been dystopian.
Professors and public intellectuals in the information age
It is also worth cautioning that these participants all volunteered after seeing the e-book and so may represent a technophilic, non-random sampling of college students.
An experiment using electronic books in the classroom
These technophilic kids bear watching because in their quest to define themselves, they're reshaping America's social, economic and political institutions from Wall Street to Main Street.
Next: The future just happened. (Book reviews)
[i]s the insistence that nature is artifactual not more evidence of the extremity of the violation of a nature outside and other to the arrogant ravages of our technophilic civilization, which, after all, we were taught began with the heliotropisms of enlightenment projects to dominate nature with blinding light focused by optical technology?
'Woman-Made Women': Mobilisations of nature in feminist accounts of cosmetic surgery
Around 1900, 1901, there was a bubble craze jacked up with all the turn-of-the-century fever: a sort of calendar superstition mixed with technophilic exuberance.
The "New Economy" and the Speculative Bubble: an Interview with Doug Henwood

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