techno-utopianism

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From techno- +‎ utopianism.

Noun

techno-utopianism (usually uncountable, plural techno-utopianisms)

  1. The belief that a utopia can be achieved with technology.
    Coordinate terms: technodeterminism, techno-futurism, techno-optimism, technophoria, cyberoptimism
    Near-synonym: cyberutopianism
    • 2015, Veronica Barassi, Activism on the Web: Everyday Struggles against Digital Capitalism, Routledge, →ISBN, page 52:
      One interesting aspect of this process of technological fetishism is represented by the fact that it cannot be fully understood without looking at the peculiarly Western attitude towards techno-utopianism or, in other words, the belief that technologies can become important tools of social and political liberation.
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