technophobic
Americanadjective
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Admittedly technophobic, I had students help me recreate my in-person classes with Zoom, the platform used by 90% of U.S. colleges.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Speculative technophobic horror has been replaced by a disturbance more bleakly resonant: how things are now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025
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
He added, “Thad was as technophobic as anybody I’ve ever met. He did not own a computer.”
From New York Times ● May 29, 2022
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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