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Technically Reclined

Adjective to describe someone who is skilled enough to afford being lazy.

Literal sense: Be able to solve the problem without getting out of bed.
"Did you have to go into the office to fix the issue?"

"No. I stayed in bed and talked them through it while half asleep. I'm technically reclined like that"
Technically Reclined by DanoNYC January 3, 2010

Technologically illiterate

Someone who doesn't know and will probably never learn how to work a computer or any form of technology, i.e video games, cell phones, microwaves, etc.
Mother: Honey, where's the space bar?
Teen: Mom, its the biggest key on the keyboard.
Mother: Oh thank you, that really helps a lot.
Teen: *Sighs* Mom, you are so technologically illiterate.

Technologically Challenged 

The sort of people that find the simplest of everyday technological feats and gadgets to be a challenge in making sense and use of. Much unlike the technologically impaired duck meme and the first day on the internet grandma meme, these are all very real persons and there is a very real blog being written with them in mind (The Low Tech-IQ Blog)
Woah dude, this smartphone has gotten the best of me. Feels i'm a bit technologically challenged.

Technologically impaired 

someone that has NO CLUE on how to use technology, such as computers, cell phones, ipods, mp3s.
Meh: Did you see her in the computer lab today?
You: Yeah! She was totally technologically impaired!

Technologically neutered 

To strip technology of all meaningful features, thereby violating its original intent to solve problems in an automated way. This is typically done by an enterprise through a series of decisions made by folks with no understanding of technology, e.g. legal or risk. Fears that drive to these decisions are typically focused on trying to prevent behaviors through technology limitations, without isolating that the issue is the behavior. The end result will likely be a set of technology that looks similar to the current technology set, just with a different look and feel on top of a fundamentally rearchitected platform typically costing millions of dollars.

The approach would be equivalent to not allowing knives in the cafeteria for fear of stabbings vs not hiring people who won't stab each other. Only technologically neutering costs much more.
They technologically neutered the SharePoint environment by removing everything but the list and document library. It is no longer usable for its core collaboration functions.

We have technologically neutered our mobile email by not allowing attachments.

They technologically neutered their CRM by turning off the workflow features.

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