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  • noun informal One who is disadvantaged or exploited within a modern technological society, especially through inability to use computer technology.

Etymologies

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From techno- +‎ peasant.

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Examples

  • And if you're looking for more, just try a Google Blogs search for 'technopeasant'. linkpost comment navigation viewing

    Open Question Wednesday #3 julieandrews 2008

  • The pixel-stained technopeasant plebeian writers as it were.

    If you want something done right... wendigomountain 2010

  • So I am very very happy to announce that my publishers have gotten onto the pixel-stained technopeasant bandwagon, and you can now find His Majesty's Dragon available as a free download at Del Rey's brand-new Suvudu Free Library, along with many other fine works including Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, Assassin†™ s Apprentice by Robin Hobb, Settling Accounts: Return Engagement by Harry Turtledove, and Blood Engines by T.A. Pratt. \o/

    Boing Boing 2009

  • I missed pixel-stained technopeasant wretch day (observed).

    sugar can be poison matociquala 2008

  • Sean, too, is a pixel-stained technopeasant wretch.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Magic Dirt - Sean Williams Blue Tyson 2008

  • There are a couple of money shots in it, including a bit where he calls people who post professional fiction online "pixel-stained technopeasant wretches".

    preparing for revisions papersky 2007

  • Mom thinks anybody using the phrase "pixel-stained technopeasant wretches" in a rant is perhaps deliberately winding people up, which idea amuses the hell out of me.

    preparing for revisions papersky 2007

  • Go to Wheatland Press for my story from Polyphony 4, "A Life In Movies". technopeasant

    Another Peasant mtrimm1 2007

  • Happy International pixel-stained technopeasant wretch day!

    Happy International pixel-stained technopeasant wretch day! shweta_narayan 2009

  • And, as far as Australian goes, as far as pixel-stained technopeasant wretches, well, I'd hate to be caught paraphasing the Devil Went Down to Georgia, but, he's the best there's even been.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Blue Tyson 2007

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