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.
Magic or sorcery that involves machines and technology in its use or effects. Common uses include making something that was irreparably damaged continue to work properly or boosting a machine's efficiency and performance to past its technical limits.
Even with his extensive training in technomancy, Caderyn could not get the ancient device to operate.
When your brain will not allow you to sleep until you accomplish some technology-related task. Word devised by Kuroi Kaze on his Facebook wall 1/24/2011.
I was going to go to bed, but then techsomnia hit and I just HAD to root my Samsung Epic and put a new rom on there. Next thing I know it's 2:30 a.m. and I have to be up for work at 6.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.