Contextualizebeta

techno-fundamentalism

noun

Etymology

From techno- + fundamentalism.

  1. derived from *bʰudʰmḗn✻
  2. derived from fundamentum
  3. borrowed from fundamentālis
  4. suffixed as fundamentalism — “fundamental + ism”
  5. formed as techno-fundamentalism — “techno- + fundamentalism”

Definitions

  1. A body of beliefs that places unwavering faith in the power of technology to solve all…

    A body of beliefs that places unwavering faith in the power of technology to solve all societal problems and advance human progress.

    • I'm afraid your techno-fundamentalism is as mindless and as full of evil potential as Christian fundamentalism (or Islamic fundamentalism, etc.)
    • They call it "techno-fundamentalism" because there's no reason to believe we will necessary find technology to solve all our problems in time to prevent disasters. There's only faith in the potential of technology.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for techno-fundamentalism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA