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- noun informal Enthusiasm for modern technology.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Affluenza, he says, can be recognized by key symptoms: technomania and e-mania -- obsession with technology and the internet -- rampant consumerism, megalomania, narcissism, "robotism," and "affluenza's concomitant: imperialism and national aggression."
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Technological advancement (viz. technomania) has been responsible for forced and violent dissolving of indigenous communities in order to access mineral-rich lands; it has been responsible for curable cancers and other degenerative ailments (while ironically, providing novel remedies and cures for specific ailments that, well, nature has provided all along).
Countercurrents.org 2009
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a brave new world of technomania is developing in the name of reason and security.
Bill of Rights Defense Committee - Headlines Randall Amster - TruthOut 2010
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