techno-utopianism
nounEtymology From techno- + utopianism.
1
Usually The belief that a utopia can be achieved with technology.
- Near-synonym: cyberutopianism
- One interesting aspect of this process of technological fetishism is represented by the fact that it cannot be fully understood without looking at the peculiarly Western attitude towards techno-utopianism or, in other words, the belief that technologies can become important tools of social and political liberation.2015, Veronica Barassi, Activism on the Web: Everyday Struggles against Digital Capitalism, Routledge, →ISBN, page 52:
- Related terms
- techno-utopia, techno-utopian