neotechnicsn.
/ˌniːə(ʊ)ˈtɛknɪks/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈtɛknɪks/ Neotechnic development, new technology; the science of this.Used esp. after Lewis Mumford ( Technics & Civilization, 1934) to denote technological development in the period between the late 19th cent. and the Second World War (1939–45).
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society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > technology > branches or types of
manufacturing technology1890
geotechnics1902
geotechnology1908
neotechnics1927
high technology1936
appropriate technology1950
new technology1953
space technology1957
technoscience1960
microtechnology1963
telechirics1963
reproductive technology1965
high-tech1967
megatechnics1967
terotechnology1970
ecotechnology1973
new-tech1980
analogue1986
sci-tech1990
haptics1992
1927 A. Defries Interpreter ix. 217 Neotechnics has its physical science, geotechnics its vital sciences, its synthetic aims.
1934 L. Mumford Technics & Civilization 232 One might say..that paleotechnics regarded only the figure to the left of the decimal, whereas neotechnics is preoccupied with those to the right.
1939 E. Staley World Economy in Transit. 5 Neotechnics, of which we have been experiencing the beginnings since the late nineteenth century,..has produced radio communication, the modern automobile, the Dieselelectric streamlined train, and the airplane.
1963 Punch 21 Aug. 284/1 The forms, symbolism and idiom of neotechnics.
1997 S. Connor in R. Porter Rewriting Self 204 The period between the invention of the telephone and the gathering of the great powers for the Second World War marks that second great wave of technological innovation, defined by Lewis Mumford as the era of ‘neotechnics’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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