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As Second Lifer Kami Harbinger who posted above said on her blog, You can't even be in SL unless you have a pretty awesome computer, a high-speed Internet connection, are neophilic enough to try something like this out, and are smart enough to understand what's happening and find something interesting to do there.
Second Life 2006
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Or perhaps you would like to explain to your other neophilic, futurist readers here exactly what goal your use of sarcasm was intended to accomplish, and how?
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Some work that would never get through a robust peer-review process Sokal-like exceptions aside can get a lot of attention on the unregulated, neophilic web.
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Mark: The zine would be Jethro Bodine of "The Beverly Hillbillies" -- curious, neophilic, xenophilic, gleeful, and eager to adopt any new theory or conspiracy as the absolute truth.
Boing Boing: September 29, 2002 - October 5, 2002 Archives 2002
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"Although we're a neophilic species," Ms. Gallagher says, "as individuals we differ in our reactions to novelty, because a population's survival is enhanced by some adventurers who explore for new resources and worriers who are attuned to the risks involved."
NYT > Home Page By JOHN TIERNEY 2012
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Never have there so many new things to sample, especially in the United States, a nation of immigrants, which Ms. Gallagher ranks as the most neophilic society in history.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN TIERNEY 2012
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"Although we're a neophilic species," Ms. Gallagher says, "as individuals we differ in our reactions to novelty, because a population's survival is enhanced by some adventurers who explore for new resources and worriers who are attuned to the risks involved."
NYT > Home Page By JOHN TIERNEY 2012
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Never have there so many new things to sample, especially in the United States, a nation of immigrants, which Ms. Gallagher ranks as the most neophilic society in history.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN TIERNEY 2012
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For me, I don't use technology simply because I'm neophilic.
Strange Attractor 2009
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For me, I don't use technology simply because I'm neophilic.
Strange Attractor 2009
MaryW commented on the word neophilic
Thomas Thwaites, GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2016), Kindle loc. 1126March 6, 2017