technetronic

[ tek-ni-tron-ik ]

adjective

1. pertaining to or characterized by cultural changes brought about by advances in technology, electronics, and communications:

   a technetronic era.

Word History and Origins

Origin of technetronic¹

Coinage based on technology and electronic; from its use in a 1967 article “America in the Technetronic Age” by Polish-born U.S. political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928–2017)

Example Sentences

The youth of the technetronic or post-industrial age often remain out of the work force until their late 20s.

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Brzezinski calls it the technetronic revolution.

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For the technetronic revolution it exports causes profound disturbances in the less developed nations.

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Just as the technetronic revolution has further divided rich from poor nations, so is it beginning to fracture the nation-state.

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Today's technetronic world resembles rather a "global city�a nervous, agitated, tense, and fragmented web of interdependent relations."

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