technophobic
Americanadjective
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My inner eye still sees him enthroned in his leather easy chair, leaning forward to drive home a fascinating thought about the role of The Great War in technophobic, anti-SF story lines.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2022
One, starring 97-year-old Bill Hayes and his 79-year-old wife, Susan Seaforth Hayes, was squarely aimed at older, technophobic viewers.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2022
It’s more than enough to feed technophobic dystopian fantasies or, alternatively, to generate techno-optimistic dreams of cultural conquest—especially, it seems, among those who have never served in military organizations.
From Slate • Nov. 12, 2012
It’s not surprising that writers, historically technophobic and requiring either sequestered mental space for composition or greater proximal awareness for gathering material, would recoil from smartphones.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2012
Sam and Joe had become the schools roaming tech support, a rapidly spreading phenomenon among geeks as hard-pressed and technophobic school districts turned to their onetime social outcasts to help run their computer systems.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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