neotechnic

During Mumford's paleotechnic era, when coal and railways replaced water and canal boats, the United States once again found itself blessed with huge coal reserves, and the arrival of the neotechnic era, when petroleum and highways became the new foundation of power, the United States found that nature had supplied it with so much oil that in 1950, it produced more petroleum than all other countries combined.

The Archdruid Report 2010

The neotechnic age, in effect, turned out to have no successor.

The Archdruid Report 2010

While I generally agree with Carson's critiques of Corporate Liberalism itself, I tend to strongly disagree with his embrace of a "Peak Oil" collapse event (for a particularly dire forecast of such a collapse, reference this recent post by Jim Kunstler that seems to be simultaneously channeling both Matthew Simmons and Peter Schiff to concoct a particularly nasty scenario) to trigger his vision of a new socio-economic order built around neotechnic decentralization.

Freedom Democrats - Online Community for Libertarian Democrats 2009

Freed from State subsidy and the influence of politics, technology will be naturally incorporated into the social relations of the community (rather than driving the social makeup of the community), thus finally giving rise to the Mumford neotechnic era of decentralized production.

Freedom Democrats - Online Community for Libertarian Democrats 2009

According to Mumford, in the neotechnic phase the possibilities for invention are suggested by, and follow directly from, the general level of scientific knowledge -- which itself is the product of an egalitarian international community.

Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism 2008