technopower

technopower

English

Etymology

techno- +‎ power

Noun

technopower (plural technopowers)

1. Skill or capability with technology.
   • 2000, Mette Bryld & Nina Lykke, Cosmodolphins: Feminist Cultural Studies of Technology, Animals, and the Sacred, Zed Books (2000), →ISBN, page 15:

     Both the USA and Russia like to demonstrate their technopower and indulge in narratives of technological infallibility and the highest potency of human power, control, cool detachment and rationality.

   • 2005, Lee Worth Bailey, The Enchantments of Technology, University of Illinois Press (2005), →ISBN, page 139:

     Like an old cowboy myth, human space travel is a ritualistic display of basic technopower.

   • 2009, John Tierney, "Message in What We Buy, but Nobody’s Listening", The New York Times, 18 May 2009:

     “Those features can be talked about in ways that will display my general intelligence to potential mates and friends, who will bow down before my godlike technopowers, which rival those of Iron Man himself.”

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:technopower.