hypermodern
adjEtymology From hyper- + modern.
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Extremely modern, bordering on the futuristic.
- The new hypermodern economy depends on the rapid movement of goods, services, and persons. Old forms of career stability are now considered to be things of the past.1997, Michael Storper, The regional world: territorial development in a global economy:
- One hypermodern trend entails technological development, producing a postindustrial, information-infused society. This also leads to globalization...2000, Stuart S Nagel, Handbook of global political policy:
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- What does this signify for the materiality and mentality of our everyday life in the hypermodern city?2003, Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-Wei Yeo, Postcolonial urbanism: Southeast Asian cities and global processes:
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Board games, Chess, Games Of or pertaining to hypermodernism.
- Derived terms
- hypermodernism, hypermodernist, hypermodernity