techno-futurism

English

Etymology

techno- +‎ future +‎ -ism

Noun

techno-futurism (uncountable)

  1. The belief in and pursuit of new and speculative technological solutions to problems and to the extension or betterment of life.
    • 2016, Charles Thorpe, Necroculture, page 120:
      Techno-futurism is an extreme scientism, in the sense of treating science as superior to all other forms of knowledge and culture and as holding the answers to all human problems.
    • 2018, Kuan-Hung Lo, “Selling Techno-futurism: Exploring Pepper's Images and Discourses Taiwanese News Media Make”, in Adrian David Cheok, David Levy, editor, Love and Sex with Robots, page 83:
      This techno-futurism is telling the Taiwanese people a technological science story about hopes, threats, and relations.
    • 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 238:
      Forget the bunker, foreget everything he'd planned to write about survivalism, and growth hacking, and techno-futurism, and imperial-stage-capitalist decline, and New Zealand's pathetically obsequious courting of the super-rich.
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