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techno-|tɛknəʊ|
repr. Gr. τεχνο-, combining form of τέχνη art, occurring in technology, etc.; techno-coˈmmercial, techno-ecoˈnomic adjs.; also in the following terms: ˈtechnocomplex Archæol. (see quot. 1968). ˈtechnofear = technophobia below. ˈtechnofreak [freak n.1 4 c], an enthusiast for technology or for the technical complexities of a particular piece of equipment; hence techno-ˈfreakish a. technographic a. technography |-ˈɒgrəfɪ| [-graphy], the description of the arts, forming the preliminary stage of technology (technology 1); hence techˈnographer, one versed in technography; technographic |-ˈgræfɪk| a. techno-ˈmanager, a person who is both a technologist and a manager; hence ˌtechno-manaˈgerial a. technoˈmania, a mania for technology; hence technoˈmaniac. ˌtechno-meˈchanic a. (nonce-wd.), pertaining to mechanical art (in quot. absol. as n.). technonomy |-ˈɒnəmɪ| [-nomy], the practical application of the principles of the arts, forming the final stage of technology; hence technonomic |-ˈnɒmɪk| a. (Cent. Dict. 1891). ˈtechnophile, one who favours technology. technoˈphobia, fear of technology; so ˈtechnophobe, a person who fears technology. techˈnopolis [-polis], a society dominated by technology; hence technoˈpolitan a. ˈtechnosphere [-sphere], the technological aspect of human activity. ˈtechnostress orig. U.S., (psychosomatic illness caused by) stress arising from working in an environment dominated by (esp. computer) technology; hence ˈtechnostressed a., affected by technostress. ˈtechnostructure, a group of technologists or technical experts that controls the workings of industry or government. technoˈtronic a. = technetronic a.
1937Discovery Aug. 254/1 The history of this material [sc. synthetic rubber] from the early ‘academic synthesis’ period, through the ‘techno-commercial’ period, up to the present time. 1979J. E. Rowley Mechanised In-House Information Syst. ii. 107 Some units..assign equal importance to scientific and technical information and techno-commercial material.
1968D. L. Clarke Analytical Archaeol. viii. 357 Technocomplex, a group of cultures characterized by assemblages sharing a polythetic range but differing specific types of the same general families of artefact-types, shared as a widely diffused and interlinked response to common factors in environment, economy and technology. 1976Sci. Amer. Feb. 94/2 What game animals supported the hunters of the Tanged Point Techno⁓complex? 1980Cambr. Encycl. Archaeol. 69/1 The long, stable period of the Oldowan technocomplex.
1960Techno-economic [see feed v. 8 e (ii)]. 1976Nature 5 Feb. 355/2 A team..will be responsible for investigations into the cost-benefit of research done by the BSC and for techno-economic analysis.
1980Times 14 Mar. 20/3 The consumer is still suffering from what many dealers are beginning to call ‘technofear’—fear of commitment to purchasing anything in case the technology changes. 1983Times 28 Sept. 3/3 Techno-fear..is defined as ‘difficulties in accepting and using high-technology products in the home’.
1973Absolute Sound I. ii. 42 We have always known it [sc. the audio industry] was dominated by techno freaks with an unhealthy irreverence for the live sound. Ibid. iii. 173 His prose is..so technofreakish,..so filled with demonstrations that the Great Expert is at work that it is incomprehensible to virtually every informed audiophile we know. 1983Austral. Personal Computer June/July 62/1 A neat piece of technology that..ought to interest any technofreak simply because it's such a good idea.
1900Amer. Anthropologist Jan.–Mar. 164 The technographer pursues a single art over time and place until he knows it thoroughly.
1891Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1889–90 i. 611 The Kunstgewerbe Museum contains much that is like the ethnographic collection, but the reigning concept is technographic. 1895Funk's Stand. Dict., Technographic. 1900Amer. Anthropologist Jan.–Mar. 164 There are two ways of looking at human inventions, the one ethnographic, the other technographic. 1881Mason in Smithsonian Rep. 501 Observing and descriptive stage... Technography. Inductive and classifying stage... Technology. Deductive and predictive stage... Technonomy. 1962A. Sampson Anat. Britain xiii. 211 It was only after France and Germany had founded their polytechniques and hochschule [sic] for techno-managers that Britain gradually felt the need to adapt their universities to technical education. 1979Times of India 17 Aug. 12 (Advt.), It has set up a full-fledged Consultancy & Promotional Cell with Indian and Foreign experts for providing technomanagerial Consultancy Services for improving the operational and managerial efficiency of consumer cooperatives.
1969Daily Tel. 29 May 28/3 The days when almost any scientific team could wrest enormous sums from the taxpayer to finance big, glamorous and spectacular projects were coming to an end... ‘The era of technomania is passing—and high time too,’ Mr. Benn said. Ibid. 30 May 20/3 Shall I, who have hated technology all my life... Turn technomaniac myself?
1833S. Austin Charac. Goethe I. 187 Persuaded of the co-operation of the Techno-mechanic with the Dynamo-ideal, [I] had Seebeck's cross embroidered like damask, and could now see it in whatever light I chose, clear or dim, on an uniform surface.
1968H. Weaver tr. Ellul's Critique of New Commonplaces 236 This commonplace is really very common among technicians, technologists, technolasters, technophagi, technophiles, technocrats, [etc.] 1983Daily Tel. 28 Nov. 12/1 Those technophiles disappointed by the absence of innovative features in IBM's newly announced P.C. Junior home computer have overlooked one splendid novelty.
1965New Statesman 27 Aug. 286/1 Instead of leading us to the golden age, science is dragging us down into a servile, stable hell. Shades of Orwell! Technophobia has struck another good man down. Ibid., The incipient technophobe will rage against the motor-murder of 20 people a day in Britain, without once considering that cars also carry 50 million people and their goods. 1965H. C. Cox Secular City 5 We shall make use of a somewhat contrived word, technopolis. It will be used here to signify the fusion of technological and political components into the base on which a new cultural style has appeared{ddd}it will call to mind the fact that the contemporary secular metropolis was not possible before modern technology. Ibid. iii. 63 To say that technopolitan man is pragmatic means that he is a kind of modern ascetic. He disciplines himself to give up certain things... Life for him is a set of problems, not an unfathomable mystery.
1969Huxley & Nicholson in Times 7 Oct. 8/1 The most striking change which it has brought is to create out of a mass of economic, social and technical developments, an entire semi-autonomous new system, which we may call the technosphere, with its own structure and anatomy, its own programmed inputs and outputs, and its accidental or deliberate releases into the biosphere.
1983Washington Post 15 June b5 A new exercise guide featuring an array of do-at-your-desk stretches designed to combat techno-stress. 1984Eastern Airlines Rev. Sept. 27/2 Technostress is a modern disease of adaptation caused by an inability to cope with the new computer technologies in a healthy manner. 1986Datalink 26 May 14/5 Technostress..can be cured by greater involvement with people and less involvement with computers.
1984C. Brod Technostress ii. 41 Mental fatigue becomes a familiar feeling for the technostressed individual.
1967J. K. Galbraith New Industrial State vi. 71 Management..includes..only a small proportion of those who..contribute information to group decisions. This..group..extends from the most senior officials of the corporation to..blue collar workers... This..is the guiding intelligence—the brain—of the enterprise... I propose to call this organization the Technostructure. 1978Nature 9 Nov. 147/2 In discussing the origins of the Soviet technical intelligentsia (throughout inelegantly and inaccurately termed the ‘technostructure’), Bailes draws on an impressive range of sources, both Soviet and Western.
1969Daily Tel. 23 Apr. 16/3 The ‘technotronic society’, as the mass technical world is now sometimes labelled, creates its own problems.
Add: ˈtechnobabble colloq. (orig. U.S.) [after psychobabble], outlandish or pretentious (pseudo-)scientific jargon.
1981People Weekly (U.S.) 28 Dec. 134/1 To help separate technology from *technobabble, People turned to Tracy Kidder, 36, whose book The Soul of a New Machine describes the building of a new computer. 1984Consumer Electronics Apr. a6/4 Standardization is very critical to reduce the fear factor that exists with computers, the sheer amount of technobabble. 1986E. L. Scace in T. C. Bartee Digital Communications iii. 98 Network terminations 1 and 2 are technobabble left over from early phases of ISDN discussions. 1989Precision Marketing 6 Mar. (Suppl.) 18/1 (Advt.), Never mind the technicalities..if you look for more sophistication, you're liable to be blinded with geodemographispeak and technobabble.
technoˈphobic a. and n., (a) adj., suffering from technophobia; also absol.; (b) n. = technophobe.
1982Fortune 3 May 189/2 Top managers who feel comfortable with a computer terminal are rare; most executives are still *technophobic. 1985Listener 25 Apr. 40/4 It has none of the cuddly styling now employed..to win over the technophobic. 1985Chicago Tribune 6 Oct. iii. 4/6 When people are technophobics, they usually just muddle by... Only when it gets more pronounced, when it interferes with life, do they seek help. 1989Newsday (Nassau ed.) 28 Sept. 79/1 What the governor has failed to disclose and the anti-Shoreham technophobics have failed to realize is the environmental impact of the construction and operation of the three fossil fuel plants that will have to be built to replace Shoreham. 1990Financial Times 24 Apr. i. 16/7 A PC aimed specifically at the technophobic business manager.
Add:2. Used in comb. with the names of styles of popular music (as techno-pop, techno-rock, techno-soul, etc.) to designate variations of these styles characterized by the use of synthesized sounds and an insistent dance beat. Also in other combs., with more general allusion to this style. See also *techno n. and a.1
[1977Rolling Stone 21 Apr. 88/3 Such technosheen music requires a detached master to hold the reins.] 1980N.Y. Times 11 July c14/4 On her new ‘Come Upstairs’ album, Miss Simon extends her musical idiom as far as modified techno-pop. 1983T. Hibbert Rockspeak! 156 Techno-rock groups amass staggering amounts of expensive electronic devices and complex equipment with which to exhibit their skills. 1983People Weekly (U.S.) 7 Nov. 30/3 Depeche Mode is a techno-pop quartet (three synthesizer players and one vocalist) that started out in Basildon, Essex. 1989Sound Choice Autumn 55/3 The style represented includes pop, techno-rock, industrial, free improvisation, and even more obscure styles. 1990Atlantic Jan. 97/1 The slick techno-funk he [sc. Miles Davis] has been recording since The Man With the Horn, in 1981. 1991Trouser Press Record Guide (ed. 3) 1, Setting his own Ferry/Bowiesque vocals..mostly to a supple techno-soul disco pulse. 1991Source Dec. 36/1 With dry, pseudo, techno-house cold-flooding the systems. 1992I-D July 62/4 Brooklyn techno-meister Lenny D is enthusing about his new label, Industrial Strength.
▸ techno-thriller n. a novel or film in the spy or crime genre, the plot and action of which involves much scientific and technological detail.
1986Washington Post 20 Jan. c16/1 World War III could be..waged..on cool and bloodless plains of silicon and won by software sabotage of the enemy's crucial computer systems. That is the timely and arresting premise of ‘Softwar’, a French *techno-thriller. 1996SFX May 51/2 Very much a technothriller in nature, Bugs is something of a contemporary take on Mission: Impossible, with its scenario of three freelance crimebusters using cutting-edge hardware to thwart the bad guys and right wrongs. 2002Daily Tel. 25 Nov. 17/3 It's a highly polished example of the genre he pioneered—the techno-thriller. You not only get a suspenseful page-turner about corporate greed and scientific overreaching, but also a mini-education in such arcane subjects as nanotechnology and computer viruses. |