Citations:technoid

Adjective: "pertaining to the functionality or operation of a technology; technical"

 * 1978 — "Econoboxes", Car and Driver, Volume 24:
 * What our tests couldn't measure was something I'll call — for want of a technoid term — "bulletproofness," something Toyota, Datsun, and Chevette have in huge amounts.
 * 1989 — Gordon Baxter, "Katy Duster", Flying, July 1989:
 * Carla Payne may not be the only lady duster in the world — and she and I both prefer the softer, older "duster pilot" to today's sterile, technoid "aerial applicator."
 * 1994 —Paul Merenbloom, "The WAN psychology: a study of protocols and their behavior", InfoWorld, 25 April 1994:
 * The second element of WAN planning is the technoid matter of protocol selection and behavior.
 * 1996 — Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating An HMTL Web Page, Que (1996), ISBN 9780789707222, page 222:
 * DLL is VB's runtime library, which allows VB programs to interact with Windows and do other low-level, behind-the-screens, technoid stuff.
 * 2000 — David Pogue, The iMac for Dummies, IDG Books Worldwide (2000), ISBN 9780764506482, page 158:
 * You're going to merge a list of addresses into a piece of mail, creating what appear to be individually composed letters; thus the technoid term for what you're about to do is mail merge.

Adjective: "exhibiting, requiring, or characteristic of an interest in and/or proficiency with technology"

 * 1987 — Charles Setter & Daniel Ben-Horin, "Insights on the LaserWriter", Macworld, January 1987:
 * Some folks are put off by the technoid aura of the hard-core BBS network, but the fact is that laser printing — and desktop publishing in general — is rapidly evolving, cutting-edge territory.
 * 1998 — Dale Brown, Fatal Terrain, Berkley Books (1998), ISBN 9780425162606, page 114:
 * Years ago, back when she was a civilian contractor working on new high-tech defensive electronic countermeasures systems for heavy bomber aircraft, she had been such a serious, technoid cold fish.
 * 1999 —Ross Owens, "Excelling at XML", InfoWorld, 1 March 1999:
 * "XML is moving out of its 'technoid' phase and becoming something that business people can make sense of and talk about using," Simpson points out.
 * 2005 —Ed Christman, "Copy Protection Hubbub: Mountain Or Molehill?", Billboard, 10 December 2005:
 * The issue began when some technoid types labeled First 4 Internet's copy-protection technology — employed by Sony BMG on 52 of its titles — as spyware.

Adjective: "(of music) electronic or electronic-sounding"

 * 1997 — "Hype Springs Eternal", Newsweek, 20 April 1997:
 * This includes full-page print ads and a 30-second trailer with loud technoid music shown on 807 Cineplex Odeon screens.
 * 1999 — "The 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s", Spin, September 1999:
 * The orchestral grandeur of "Isobel," the technoid seduction of "Possibly Maybe," the industrial juggernaut of "Army of Me," and the big-band retro romp of "It's Oh So Quiet" each highlight a different facet of her mutable identity (magic-realist dreamer, cyber-diva, space-pixie, etc.).
 * 2000 — Kieran Wyatt, Himawari review, CMJ New Music Monthly, July 2000:
 * On Himawari, they build and extrapolate on the deep technoid rumble of Snowboarding In Argentina, mapping out more body-baffling sonic vistas with the electro shuffle of "Mysterons" and the quasi-drum 'n' bass "Pineapple Sponge Cake."
 * 2004 — Heath K. Hignight, Kesto review, CMJ New Music Monthly, May 2004:
 * That's not entirely true of this fifth album by the Finnish duo of Ilpo Väisänen and Mika Vainio, as the majority of Kesto pushes Pan Sonic's experimental technoid sound beyond any boundaries that might have hemmed them in previously.
 * 2004 — Keith Harris, Medulla review, Spin, October 2004:
 * She hinted at this strategy on 2001's Vespertine, where her vocals pulsed along with music seemingly keyed to her own internal rhythms instead of getting lost in technoid tangles.
 * 2004 — Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible, St. Martin's Griffin (2004), ISBN 9780312306960, page 276:
 * The electro fans like EBM [electronic body music], industrial and technoid sounds, and always argue with the eighties folk about how much techno can still be considered goth.
 * 2009 — Christoph Twickel, "Reggae in Panama" (trans. Noah Duaber), in Reggaeton (ed. Raquel Z. Rivera, Wayne Marshall, & Deboarah Pacini Hernandez), Duke University Press (2009), ISBN 9780822343837, page 81:
 * Every few weeks there was a new one, packed with cranked-up, technoid riddims, machine-gun fire, sirens wailing, battle rhymes, male and female choirs which hurl vulgarities at the other sex; they call it la plena.

Adjective: "(of art or design) of or pertaining to an aesthetic style that utilizes industrial or technological forms, materials, and themes"

 * 1965 — Werner Haftmann, Painting in the Twentieth Century, Frederick J. Praeger Publishers (1965), page 325:
 * After the war it found expression in a number of drawings and sculptures in which the existential feeling of our time is embodied in mythical figures which seem to come from some distant realm but are defined as contemporary by their 'technoid' forms.
 * 1969 — László Moholy-Nagy, Painting, Photography, Film, M.I.T. Press (1969), page 147:
 * And although today 'hard edge' Constructivism, Op Art and technoid art have won much ground, 'painting', hand-writing and the brush-stroke - in short, belle peinture and belle matière going back in an almost unbroken tradition to Courbet, who, when asked what paint was, held up his hand and replied: 'finesse de doigt' — persist too.
 * 1978 — Uwe M. Schneede, Surrealism, Harry N. Abrams (1978), ISBN 9780810920668, page 136:
 * We are looking into an area in which biomorphic and technoid objects seem to exist in a Utopian atmosphere.
 * 1985 — Patricia Rochard, 100 Years of Art in Germany: 1885-1985: Ingelheim am Rhein, 28 April-30 June 1985, The City (1985), page 164:
 * Technoid elements (wire trellis, textiles) are combined with the pseudo-natural aspect of the growth of organoid forms consisting of worn and stripped walls and feelers to form a labyrinthine tower.
 * 1991 — Dirk Meyhöfer, Contemporary European Architects 2, Taschen (1991), ISBN 9783822894552, page 148:
 * Rich treasures from the Arab world lie in technoid display cases. On the outside of the building, aluminium, glass and concrete have been welded together to create a building which bears witness to a fantastic level of technological expertise.
 * 1992 — Michael Benedikt, Deconstructing the Kimbell: An Essay on Meaning and Architecture, Site Books (1992), ISBN 9780930829162, page 94:
 * This, even though for many —stylistically — it is made of many, long, narrow parts, shifted apart with many slits and slots, it is non-hierarchical, it stretches the usual limits of structural engineering, it is boldly modern yet not streamlined or technoid
 * 1992 — Peter Haiko, Vienna 1850-1930: Architecture, Rizzoli (1992; trans. Edward Vance Humphrey), ISBN 9780847813247, page 130:
 * The glass-iron structure of the main hall emphasizes the technoid element without neglecting the aesthetic.
 * 1994 — Streamlined: A Metaphor for Progress (ed. Claude Lichtenstein & Franz Engler), Lars Muüller (1994), ISBN 9783906700717, page 53:
 * This railcar, built in Koln-Deutz by the Vereinigte Westdeutsche Wagenfabriken AG, with its strikingly streamlined front of highly technoid appearance, was made using monocoque construction,
 * 1997 — "Critical Anthology - Belgium" (ed. Robert Horace), in Flemish and Dutch Painting: From Van Gogh, Ensor, Magritte and Mondrian to Contemporary Artists, Rizzoli (1997), ISBN 9780847820559, page 316:
 * Nature, a time-limit pushed out by technoid plastic art, celebrates its return in surprising fashion in an intoxication of biological-organic powers.

Noun: "a person interested in and/or proficient with technology"

 * 1980 — "The Honda GLs", Motor Trend, Volume 32, April 1980:
 * If you are stricken, as we were, by the amazing package efficiency of the Honda GL car, you have the heart and soul of a true technoid and you'll love the Honda GL motorcycle for what it is, even if you've never cared at all for for 2-wheeled transportation.
 * 1984 — Michael Moritz, "A Hard-Core Technoid", Time, 16 April 1984:
 * Says Gates in his characteristic computerspeak: "I was a hard-core technoid."
 * 1987 — Steve Gibson, "Mylex Board Lets Users Upgrade From 286 to 386 Machines for Under $1,500", InfoWorld, 14 December 1987:
 * I've never thought of myself as much of a Robert X. Cringely type, being rather more of a technoid.
 * 1989 — Tim Kiska, Detroit's Powers & Personalities, Momentum Books (1989), ISBN 9780961872618, page 183:
 * He is famous at Ford for his early hours, reportedly arriving at his twelfth-floor Glass House office as early as 4 am. Colleagues describe him as decent, very bright, shy and a bit of a technoid.
 * 1990 — Willaim C. Dietz, Matrix Man, ROC (1990), ISBN 9780451450357:
 * "As you can see, Corvan checked into a Vancouver hotel immediately after the raid. He used his telecard to make a number of routine business calls. The next day he left Vancouver for Seattle, where he visited News Network 56 headquarters and spent some time with a technoid named Kim Kio. She's the one who rode electronic herd on his Canadian report."
 * 1993 — David Gerrold, Under the Eye of God, Bantam Books (1993), ISBN 9780553290103, page 12:
 * They could describe the room with their eyes closed, the customers too: a technoid tinkering with gritty distortion on the keyboard of a howling synth, a couple of nervous bioforms whispering illicitly in a dark corner, and of course, the usual sweaty collection of sullen toughs and slow-dying prospectors.
 * 1996 — "Dave Barry for Dummies", Computerworld, 20 May 1996:
 * But the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, whose column appears in the Miami Heralds Tropic magazine and is syndicated in hundreds of newspapers, is also a laptop-toting technoid'-in-training.
 * 2001 — Steven Levy, "Random Access Online: Slashdot Debuts In Japan", Newsweek, 31 May 2001:
 * Hemos and CmdrTaco are Jeff Bates and Rob Malda, respectively, the self-described nerds from Holland, Mich., who founded the wildly popular Slashdot.org Web site, which is the white-hot center of English-language technoid discussions.
 * 2004 —Antonia Felix, Wesley K. Clark: A Biography, Newmarket Press (2004), ISBN 9781557046253, page 172:
 * A true technoid, he conducted his business with the help of an array of high-tech gadgets.
 * 2005 —Eve Adams, The Garden of Eden, St. Martin's Griffin (2006), ISBN 0312323646, pages 194-195:
 * He was a lost-in-cyberspace technoid, a chubby, bald man with sweaty palms and a florid complexion that hinted at a future of heart disease who had created and sold several computer games to a major manufacturer.
 * 2006 — Mark L. Chambers, Building a PC for Dummies, 5th Edition, Wiley Publishing (2006), ISBN 9780471767725, page 18:
 * I introduce you to each of the systems in your computer, what they do, and how you install them, including advanced technology that would make a technoid green with envy.
 * 2006 — Timothy Remus, Boyd Coddington's Hot Rod Engines, Drivelines & Chassis, Motorbooks (2006), ISBN 0760322651, page 63:
 * For the serious technoid and horsepower freak, components designed to pass more air can be connected to a unique ECM — one that you can program yourself.
 * 2009 — Conrad Chavez & David Blatner, Real World Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers, Peachpit Press (2009), ISBN 9780321604514, page 418:
 * For those technoids out there who really care, Adobe tells us that a Gaussian Blur of the Quick Mask is a tiny bit more accurate and true than a feather.