computerophile
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
computerophile (plural computerophiles)
- Alternative form of computerphile
- 1976, Wallace I. Matson, Sentience, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 102 (“IV. Machines”), 144 (“V. Sentience”):
- Most of what can be said about this and similar sanguine forecasts of the the[sic] computerophiles has been said by Hubert Dreyfus in his book What Computers Can’t Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason (1972). […] If a computerophile would let a computer write a chapter of his book, that would be a coup indeed.
- 1991, American Squaredance Magazine, volume 46, Burdick Enterprises, page 33:
- Although I am definitely not a computerophile, the Prodigy program is addictive.
- 1995, Michael Finley, “Chapter 7: Can We Survive Computing?: Death and Disease Were Not Supposed to Be Part of the Deal”, in Techno-Crazed: The Businessperson’s Guide to Controlling Technology—Before It Controls You, Peterson’s/Pacesetter Books, →ISBN, page 129:
- Even the most avid computerophile is not eager to lay down his life for his machine.