technocentrism love

Definitions

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  • noun The ideology that advocates the using of technology to try to answer all questions.

Etymologies

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Coined by Seymour Papert (1987) as a combination of techno- and egocentrism.

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Examples

  • Anyone who knows anything about Papert knows about his polemic against technocentrism.

    Teemu talks nonsense about the OLPC Bill Kerr 2008

  • It is true that the educational leaders of the project have presented sometimes, somewhere their worry about the possible technocentrism in educational technology projects.

    Teemu talks nonsense about the OLPC Bill Kerr 2008

  • That you called it technocentric and failed to mention that the educational leaders of the project have well established positions against technocentrism.

    Teemu talks nonsense about the OLPC Bill Kerr 2008

  • You wrote: "you called it technocentric and failed to mention that the educational leaders of the project have well established positions against technocentrism"

    Teemu talks nonsense about the OLPC Bill Kerr 2008

  • Anyone who knows anything about Papert knows about his polemic against technocentrism.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Bill Kerr 2008

  • In practice, hardly anyone carries technocentrism that far.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Bill Kerr 2006

  • In practice, hardly anyone carries technocentrism that far.

    technological change and systemic change Bill Kerr 2006

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