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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.
by yuyiya November 26, 2011
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technorati

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo, PubSub and IceRocket. As of August 2006, Technorati indexes over 55 million weblogs. The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati or intellectuals.

Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek Çelik is the site's Chief Technologist.

Technorati uses and contributes to open source software. Technorati has an active software developer community, many of them from open-source culture. Sifry is a major open-source advocate, and was a founder of LinuxCare and later of Wi-Fi access point software developer Sputnik. Technorati includes a public developer's wiki, where developers and contributors collaborate, as well as various open APIs.

The site won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show. It has also been nominated for a 2006 Webby award for Best Practices.

Technorati is blocked in China. China has, as a consequence, been widely criticized for its censorship.
A: I've tried everything I could to track her blog down.

B: Any luck?

A: Hell yea! Thank god there's technorati, her previous blog said she've had better than me.

B: Ouch!
by fl!ps!de December 8, 2006
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Technomania

Technomania takes over each time Apple releases a new iPhone model.
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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.
by zyzzogeton January 6, 2015
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Technostism

1. Economic theory advocating for the total automation of labor, as well as collective of the means of production and information technology.
2. Any instance of automation coupled with common ownership of the means of production and automated methods of labor.
3. Bottom up socialism.
4. Socialist Technophilia.
The factory runs under the careful eye of the proletarians, but only droids know any labor, for this is a technostic order.

Working is so last century; transhumans use robots via technostism.

Socialism takes the top and brings it down. Technostism takes the bottom and brings it up. How? Robots, motherfucker.
by Mr. Doomburg February 24, 2015
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technoatheist

1. A person who realizes that there is no supreme form of technology, they all suck in their own special way.
Antonym: Tech-Evangelist
2. A mildly amusing half-wit
Oh God, it was horrible. I was stuck at a table with a guys who were endlessly arguing about how their flavor of OS was far superior to the other two. Fortunately, a Technoatheist showed up and murdered them with the broken shards of a VIC-20.
by JB Reid May 8, 2003
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technopath

a person with the ability to fix computers and related devices without touching them.
I called Roberta to fix my computer. The computer was completely frozen and nothing I did worked to fix it. She walked into my room, and as she came within a foot of the computer, it miraculously started working perfectly again. She is an amazing technopath, and I have seen these technopathic skills displayed by her over and over again.
by Roberta Levin November 21, 2007
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