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- noun A strong
desire formodern technology .
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Examples
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These are people who I can't say why, but they share a kind of technolust with me.
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I turned down a date with a girl last month because instead of her cell number, she wrote her facebook URL on a napkin and handed it to me.kai. technolust
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Certainly not out of technolust: He's a self-described semi-Luddite.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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In their ongoing quest to torture and infuriate consumers by tying our brains into knots of technolust confusion, Apple has unveiled their newest line of iPods and, of course, put us all in yet another one of their famous purchasing pickles.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced his latest line of iPod technolust and dropped the price of the still months-old JesusPhone by a whopping 200 bucks.
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Certainly not out of technolust: He's a self-described semi-Luddite.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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I know about as much as the average person regarding the music scene there: MC5, the White Stripes (duh), Dirtbombs and other lo-fi garage punk goings on in Detroit, and on the other side of the fence there's the heritage of Techno via "The Belleville Three" (Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson), and the current technolust of Ghostly International/Spectral Sound in Ann Arbor.
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Plus it helped to satisfy my technolust and stopped me from buying anything more expensive.
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Plus it helped to satisfy my technolust and stopped me from buying anything more expensive.
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I know about as much as the average person regarding the music scene there: MC5, the White Stripes (duh), Dirtbombs and other lo-fi garage punk goings on in Detroit, and on the other side of the fence there's the heritage of Techno via "The Belleville Three" (Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson), and the current technolust of Ghostly International/Spectral Sound in Ann Arbor.
mialuthien commented on the word technolust
technolust – the constant desire to possess the newest, flashiest, fastest, shiniest gadget available, even if the one you just bought is only two months old and still works great
July 14, 2008
Rowlandwithaw commented on the word technolust
I used the word TECHNOLUST as the title of an article in a publication called Sound on Sound in March 1989
October 18, 2015