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

an antitechnology manifesto

Examples of anti-technology in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Word History

First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-technology

• bacteriology
• biotechnology
• dialectology
• ecclesiology
• endocrinology
• epistemology
• geochronology
• geomorphology
• histopathology
• hydrogeology
• kinesiology
• meteorology