technotarian

Technological Libertarian i.e. someone who believes that technological innovation and the Internet are best governed by free market principles. This use of the term is believed to be coined by the LAUNCH Conference blog team in a post on BitCoins (L019: Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen, Posted Sunday, May 15, 2011)

From the LAUNCH blog:
We made this term up to describe the “good people” of the internet who believe in the fundamental rights of individuals to be free, have free speech, fight hypocrisy and stand behind logic, technology and science over religion, political structure and tradition. These are the people who build and support things like Wikileaks, Anonymous, Linux and Wikipedia. They think that people can, and should, govern themselves. They are against external forms of control such as DRM, laws that are bought and sold by lobbyists, and religions like Scientology. They include splinter groups that enforce these ideals in the form of hacktivism, such as the takedown of the Sony Playstation Network after Sony tried to prosecute a hacker for unlocking its console.

You'd think that Bob would be in favor of Net Neutrality to help keep ISPs from creating different classes of Internet users, but he's a Technotarian so he doesn't believe that the government has a right to regulate ISPs in the first place.

technotarian by NewAlgebra June 10, 2011

technotarian

a person who eats, sleeps, and breathes technology

a technotarian helped me figure out how to animate with flash

technotarian by mozerick February 10, 2007

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

technoparanoid 

A person who suffers with paranoia about how information online & in databases about them may be abused by others who may gain access to it by any kind of technology devices.

After suffering a horrifying experience of online ID theft, she became a full-fledged virtual technoparanoid.

technoparanoid by BeauxZeaux December 3, 2011

techtarian 

A political-economic system in which totalitarian attributes are enabled by pervasive technology, especially when related to big data.

Technology + Totalitarian = Techtarian

Early aspects of techtarianism can be seen in the United States PRISM project, China's attempts to use technology to monitor and control freedom of expression, State linked shut-downs of communications in times of crisis, wholesale monitoring of international communication systems, and systematic monitoring of big data to produce probabilities and risk profiles for those monitored, regardless of suspicious activity or nefarious intent by those monitored and/or without knowledge of those monitored.

While the ultimate manifestations of techtarian systems are not yet defined, the use of technology toward totalitarian ends is emerging as a result of state based efforts to manipulate, monitor and control aspects of technology for the purposes of advancing state based objectives.

techtarian by Kaskaad June 13, 2013

technotian 

someone, who mixes techno music. derrived from techno, and technician.

Greg mixes techno music. Greg is a technotian.

technotian by Adrian May 13, 2005

technotrance 

technotrance Any piece of electronic equipment which holds your attention to the point of full on oblivion to everything around you. Combining the words technology, and trance

"That game has him in a technotrance. He hasn't moved in days." or "Look at that group of kids sitting in a circle staring at their phones. They seem to be stuck in a technotrance"

technotrance by Sixty-Six May 29, 2016