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technocapitalism

noun

Etymology

From techno- + capitalism.

  1. derived from *kap-✻
  2. derived from *káput✻
  3. borrowed from capitalisme — “the condition of one who is rich”
  4. prefixed as technocapitalism — “techno + capitalism”

Definitions

  1. A form of capitalism associated with the emergence of new technology sectors and the…

    A form of capitalism associated with the emergence of new technology sectors and the power of corporations.

    • Technocapitalism, as Doug Kellner (1989) describes it, becomes increasingly multinational as new technologies, such as satellite TV and computers, carry forms of mass consumer culture throughout the world, colonizing previously[…]
    • John Harris is right. Resistance to online culture is not about “sounding hopelessly old”, but about shaping a future beyond the stupidification of technocapitalism.
    • This is a novel adaption of capitalism that as yet lacks a name on which all agree, though it'll probably end up as something like “Technocapitalism”.

The neighborhood

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