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technetronic

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tech⋅ne⋅tron⋅ic

[tek-ni-tron-ik]
–adjective
pertaining to or characterized by cultural changes brought about by advances in technology, electronics, and communications: a technetronic era.

Origin:
coinage based on technology and electronic; current from its use in a 1968 article “America in the Technetronic Age” by U.S. political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski (b. 1928)
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tech·ne·tron·ic   (těk'nĭ-trŏn'ĭk)   
adj.  Relating to or characterized by the changes effected by modern advances in technology and electronics: the technetronic era; our technetronic society.

[techn(ology) + e(lec)tronic.]
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