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- noun Plural form of
techno-utopian .
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Examples
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On the one side are techno-utopians, who are entranced by the possibilities of the new technologies.
A horrible own goal for Sepp Blatter and Fifa | Nick Cohen 2011
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And the obnoxious rantings of certain techno-utopians border on the asinine when they don't cross it.
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It's true that Blackberries and iPhones can't stop bullets, and techno-utopians who suggest otherwise are now far and few between.
Adam Elkus: Beyond Twitter Revolutions and False Choices Adam Elkus 2010
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The overheated debate between techno-utopians and techno-skeptics gives us two false choices: technology as a tool to achieve utopia or technology as an alternatively frivolous or willfully malicious force.
Adam Elkus: Beyond Twitter Revolutions and False Choices Adam Elkus 2010
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It means that techno-utopians think they believe that technology will lead to a perfect world, but really believe that it will lead to no world at all.
Techno-Utopian 2009
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The overheated debate between techno-utopians and techno-skeptics gives us two false choices.
Adam Elkus: Beyond Twitter Revolutions and False Choices Adam Elkus 2010
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Ray Kurzweil, Bill Gates, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin and other techno-utopians should know that exponential growth does not generally persist indefinitely.
Neil S. Greenspan: Hogwash About the Singularity Is Here 2010
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Ray Kurzweil, Bill Gates, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin and other techno-utopians should know that exponential growth does not generally persist indefinitely.
Neil S. Greenspan: Hogwash About the Singularity Is Here Neil S. Greenspan 2010
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Ray Kurzweil, Bill Gates, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin and other techno-utopians should know that exponential growth does not generally persist indefinitely.
Neil S. Greenspan: Hogwash About the Singularity Is Here 2010
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This is a point that cannot be made often enough, especially given how regularly techno-utopians and futurologists peddle their mystifications in the stirring cadences of calls to and celebrations of emancipation (in this, as in other things, their close kinship with advertising and self-promotional discourses more generally, is unmistakable).
amor mundi 2010
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