"techno-optimism" meaning in English

See techno-optimism in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: techno-optimisms [plural]
Etymology: techno- + optimism Etymology templates: {{af|en|techno-|optimism}} techno- + optimism Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+|head=techno-optimism}} techno-optimism (usually uncountable, plural techno-optimisms)
  1. Optimism about the potential of technology. Tags: uncountable, usually Related terms: techno-optimist, technodeterminism, techno-utopianism, technophoria
    Sense id: en-techno-optimism-en-noun-FYeD1A8E Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with techno-

Download JSON data for techno-optimism meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "techno-",
        "3": "optimism"
      },
      "expansion": "techno- + optimism",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "techno- + optimism",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "techno-optimisms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+",
        "head": "techno-optimism"
      },
      "expansion": "techno-optimism (usually uncountable, plural techno-optimisms)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with techno-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 20, Karen Hao, Charlie Warzel, “Inside the Chaos at OpenAI”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "Altman’s dismissal by OpenAI’s board on Friday was the culmination of a power struggle between the company’s two ideological extremes—one group born from Silicon Valley techno-optimism, energized by rapid commercialization; the other steeped in fears that AI represents an existential risk to humanity and must be controlled with extreme caution.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Optimism about the potential of technology."
      ],
      "id": "en-techno-optimism-en-noun-FYeD1A8E",
      "links": [
        [
          "Optimism",
          "optimism"
        ],
        [
          "technology",
          "technology"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "techno-optimist"
        },
        {
          "word": "technodeterminism"
        },
        {
          "word": "techno-utopianism"
        },
        {
          "word": "technophoria"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "techno-optimism"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "techno-",
        "3": "optimism"
      },
      "expansion": "techno- + optimism",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "techno- + optimism",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "techno-optimisms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+",
        "head": "techno-optimism"
      },
      "expansion": "techno-optimism (usually uncountable, plural techno-optimisms)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "techno-optimist"
    },
    {
      "word": "technodeterminism"
    },
    {
      "word": "techno-utopianism"
    },
    {
      "word": "technophoria"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with techno-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 20, Karen Hao, Charlie Warzel, “Inside the Chaos at OpenAI”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "Altman’s dismissal by OpenAI’s board on Friday was the culmination of a power struggle between the company’s two ideological extremes—one group born from Silicon Valley techno-optimism, energized by rapid commercialization; the other steeped in fears that AI represents an existential risk to humanity and must be controlled with extreme caution.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Optimism about the potential of technology."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Optimism",
          "optimism"
        ],
        [
          "technology",
          "technology"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "techno-optimism"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.