anti-technology
adjective
an·ti-tech·nol·o·gy
ˌan-tē-tek-ˈnä-lə-jē 
ˌan-tī-
variants
or antitechnology
: opposed to technology or technological change
He apparently monitors the Internet, but his whole philosophy is anti-technology …—
Jonathan Alter
Jonathan Alteran antitechnology manifesto
Examples of anti-technology in a Sentence
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Kaczynski was an anti-technology recluse who killed three people with mail bombs from 1978 to 1995.
—NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
Like a disillusioned dreamer in a loss-of-innocence novel, Zuck has apparently soured on Washington, believing that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are anti-technology.
—Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2024
The film is hardly an anti-technology screed, however, and observes 21st-century adolescent life — which, yes, largely revolves around phones — with uncommon sensitivity.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
With his latest book, Brand is pioneering a new brand of environmentalism that discards some of the movement’s anti-technology habits, and reacquaints the green impulse with an openness to innovations that may be the key to solving our biggest problem—climate change.
—Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2010
Chase, who died last August, argued that the traumatic experiment, now seen as unethical, helped inform Kaczynski’s budding anti-technology worldview.
—Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2023
But if anti-technology, pro-union rules are written into the law by Congress, administrative-procedure challenges won’t remedy them.
—The Editors, National Review, 21 Mar. 2023
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NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
Like a disillusioned dreamer in a loss-of-innocence novel, Zuck has apparently soured on Washington, believing that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are anti-technology.
—Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2024
The film is hardly an anti-technology screed, however, and observes 21st-century adolescent life — which, yes, largely revolves around phones — with uncommon sensitivity.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
With his latest book, Brand is pioneering a new brand of environmentalism that discards some of the movement’s anti-technology habits, and reacquaints the green impulse with an openness to innovations that may be the key to solving our biggest problem—climate change.
—Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2010
Chase, who died last August, argued that the traumatic experiment, now seen as unethical, helped inform Kaczynski’s budding anti-technology worldview.
—Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2023
But if anti-technology, pro-union rules are written into the law by Congress, administrative-procedure challenges won’t remedy them.
—The Editors, National Review, 21 Mar. 2023
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“Anti-technology.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-technology. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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