anti-technology

adjective

an·​ti-tech·​nol·​o·​gy ˌan-tē-tek-ˈnä-lə-jē How to pronounce anti-technology (audio)
ˌan-tī-
variants or antitechnology
: opposed to technology or technological change
He apparently monitors the Internet, but his whole philosophy is anti-technologyJonathan Alter
an antitechnology manifesto

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His point was not anti-technology so much as pro-authorship. Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 11 Mar. 2026 The current story, inspired by the division in this country and across the world amid the rise of technology, stars Zach, an anti-technology activist, and Liberty, a robot. Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026 This isn’t about being anti-technology. Geoff Watkinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2026 Ecofascism and Malthusian anxieties about overpopulation can go hand in hand with Unabomber anti-technology screeds and climate doomers. Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2025 But that doesn’t mean paper planner users are anti-technology, explained Powell, co-founder of Regal Private Therapy Practice in the Harley Street Medical District of London. Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025 The criticism that the music industry is somehow anti-AI or anti-technology, Willens said, is false. Susan Caminiti, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025 Like the Industrial Revolution-era insurgents, the new Luddites are not anti-technology but anti-exploitation, the tech journalist Brian Merchant tells me. Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025 The difference wasn’t that my parents were anti-technology. Jessica Ewing september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of anti-technology was in 1944

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“Anti-technology.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-technology. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.

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