technocentricadj.
/ˌtɛknə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪk/, U.S. /ˌtɛknoʊˈsɛntrɪk/, /ˌtɛknəˈsɛntrɪk/ Centring on the use of technology; emphasizing and promoting the importance or value of technology.
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1963 A. Saloman In Praise of Enlightenm. 303 This will be the final triumph of technology over human life, and its philosophy will be neither theocentric nor anthropocentric, but technocentric.
1969 Times 13 Oct. (India section) p. xi/3 The Indian effort, supplemented by a characteristically American, Ford-Rockefeller-World Bank, technocentric, big farm approach, has achieved much.
1988 P. Iyer Video Night in Kathmandu 331 The clean, well-lit corridors of a user-friendly utopia, where men glided on conveyor belts into technocentric cells that were climate-controlled, sweetly scented and euphoniously organized by a PA system.
2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 3 Sept. vii. 2/2 (advt.) Sartorial Flux reflects on the changing nature of clothing and fashion in light of our increasingly nomadic and technocentric society.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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