technohorror

noun — 2 senses

technohorror

noun

Etymology From techno- + horror.

1

A horror genre dealing with the harmful effects of technology.

  • Springing from these roots, the Alien franchise was to become a vehicle for the permanent entrenchment of 1950s-style technohorror in American popular culture.2016, Steffen Hantke, Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II:
2

The fear or loathing of modern technology.

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