anti-technology
Against modern devices
Anti-technology describes opposition to or skepticism toward technological development and its effects on society.
Someone anti-technology might reject smartphones, distrust automation, or advocate for simpler living.
The stance ranges from selective resistance to wholesale rejection: The community's anti-technology values meant no televisions or computers.
Often hyphenated when used as an adjective before a noun.
One opposing technological progress
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- backlashStrong negative reaction
rejection · dissent · activism · sabotage · revolt · demonstration · campaign · moratorium
Absence of confidence
- warinessCautious distrust
- doubtLack of firm belief
- hesitationDelay from uncertainty
- reservationsDoubts or advance bookings
misgivings · questioning · suspicion · caution · scrutiny · cynicism · anxiety · concern
Quality from past eras
- retroEvoking recent past
- vinylSynthetic resin plastic
- filmMovie or coating
- typewriterMechanical printing keyboard
rotary · gramophone · analog · heirloom · yesteryear · pastoral · classic · antique
Of a clan
- ancestralOf one's forebears
- hunter-gathererPre-farming subsistence lifestyle
- neolithicFinal Stone Age period
- paleolithicEarliest tool-making period
prehistoric · nomadic · foraging · handmade · off-grid · self-sufficient · homesteading · agrarian
Luddite
One opposing technological progress
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
backlash · rejection · dissent · activism · sabotage · revolt · demonstration · campaign · moratorium · ban
distrust
Absence of confidence
- warinessCautious distrust
- doubtLack of firm belief
- hesitationDelay from uncertainty
reservations · misgivings · questioning · suspicion · caution · scrutiny · cynicism · anxiety · concern · alarm
vintage
Quality from past eras
typewriter · rotary · gramophone · analog · heirloom · yesteryear · pastoral · classic · antique · handwritten
tribal
Of a clan
- ancestralOf one's forebears
- hunter-gathererPre-farming subsistence lifestyle
- neolithicFinal Stone Age period
paleolithic · prehistoric · nomadic · foraging · handmade · off-grid · self-sufficient · homesteading · agrarian · subsistence
- anti-modernismLuddism, Luddite, technophobia, technophobe, preindustrial
anti-technologytechno-utopian
Faith in technological salvation
futurist · transhumanist · tech enthusiast · technocrat · gadget lover
anti-technologyearly adopter
First purchaser of innovations
tech-savvy · technophile · power user · digital native · gearhead