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technonazi 

A person or firm who takes a technology idea and makes a product out of it, make it appear that it is their original idea, make it proprietary, make people think that it is the only way to go (the others are uncool and socially unacceptable), and sell it for far more than what it is worth.
Apple is a technonazi.

Aryans is to Mac as Jews and Gypsies is to everything else.
technonazi by grubs1 April 9, 2009
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Technomania 

Technomania takes over each time Apple releases a new iPhone model.
Technomania by talk2me-JCH2 December 4, 2022

Technotariat 

A collective noun describing automata, both hardware and software, which displace the traditional productive roles of the proletariat. In other words: Robots which take people's jobs.
In ways Marx couldn't have imagined, a technotariat of hardware and software are taking the jobs of more and more people today.
Technotariat by zyzzogeton January 6, 2015

technonoise 

Technonoise is a genre of electronic music, which is popular in Europe. As the word implies, technonoise is a noisy version of techno music. Tecdhnonoise is underground, non-mainstream, kind of music.
Technonoise is a subgenre of techno.

technoamish 

When a person (usually and old person who grew up without a computer) has no clue how to use modern day technology. For instance they can not operate a simple flat screen TV, record TV shows on a DVR, or use Word on a computer.
"My mom is so technoamish, she can't even check her e-mail without my help"
technoamish by nhgirl January 28, 2009

technorati 

1. People who are highly knowledgeable about technology, especially digital technology such as computing (IT) and communications (together, ICT). A portmanteau word, "technorati" combines "technical" and "literati".

Singular: technorat.

Synonyms: technoscenti.

Antonyms: newby, luser.

2. An Internet tool and website intended for such people: capitalised as "Technorati".
Joe's one of the technorati - he wrote the book on the Unix Korn shell.
technorati by yuyiya November 26, 2011

technowazzle 

A noun that describes items of technology (especially as relates to software, computers and computer programs) that is so poorly understood by the speaker that they lack even the most rudimentary terms or frame of reference required for even the simplest description. Similar to the word: "thingamajig".
Example 1:

- You know the stuff on Bob's website that moves around?

- What the f*ck are you talking about, is it flash, java, php?

- Dunno, anyway, I want some of that technowazzle on my site.

Example 2:

Tom: "Anyway, you should check out Dave's new software program, it figures out how to get beautiful women to come knocking on your door in minutes."

Albert: "How does it work, does it use APIs? Or does it function off of a reverse flux capacitator?"

Tom: "Not sure, it uses some technowazzle that brings hot girls to your door, what else do you need to know you boofhead?"
technowazzle by Gary Goodbloke November 26, 2010