techlash

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Etymology

2013, blend of tech +‎ backlash, coined by Adrian Wooldridge; popularized 2018.[1]

Noun

techlash (plural techlashes)

  1. (neologism) Backlash against technology.
    • 2013, Adrian Wooldridge, “The coming tech-lash”, in The Economist:
      The coming tech-lash
    • 2018 January 20, Eve Smith, “The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do”, in The Economist:
      The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do
    • 2018, Tom Baldwin, Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 290:
      Vestager was once criticised by Barack Obama who suggested her actions were the result of Europe's tech-envy because they ‘can't compete’ with Silicon Valley. But, as the ‘tech-lash’ continued in the wake of election shocks and Facebook scandals, she has been more often cited as a role model for much bigger interventions.
    • 2019 August 8, William Davies, “The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour review – escape from dystopia”, in The Guardian:
      What’s offered is less class analysis than psychoanalysis. It is the psychoanalytic inflections that elevate this book above so much recent “techlash” literature.
    • 2020, Wendy Liu, Abolish Silicon Valley:
      It was July 2017, and the techlash was burgeoning; ordinary people were worried about AI coming for their jobs and unscrupulous tech companies misusing their data.

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References

  1. ^ Rana Foroohar (2018 December 16) “Year in a Word: Techlash”, in Financial Times

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