technocapitalism

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

techno- +‎ capitalism

Noun

technocapitalism (uncountable)

  1. A form of capitalism associated with the emergence of new technology sectors and the power of corporations.
    • 2001, Joe L. Kincheloe, Getting Beyond the Facts: Teaching Social Studies/social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century‎, Counterpoints, →ISBN, page 82:
      Technocapitalism, as Doug Kellner (1989) describes it, becomes increasingly multinational as new technologies, such as satellite TV and computers, carry forms of mass consumer culture throughout the world, colonizing previously […]
    • 2019 December 25, Jeff Wallace, “Letters: On reflection: don’t play it loud”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
      John Harris is right. Resistance to online culture is not about “sounding hopelessly old”, but about shaping a future beyond the stupidification of technocapitalism.
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