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Technophobia

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30 feature instances
31 referencing feature instances

Technophobia	type	FeatureClass
Technophobia	label	Technophobia
Technophobia	page	Technophobia
Technophobia	comment	Characters or groups who are afraid of technology and the evils that can arise from their use. Sometimes this arises from an event that happened in a person or nation's past, but often is just a result of fear of the unknown. Sometimes, these individuals or groups are concerned for the future if these advances go unchecked, leading Ludd Was Right. This trope can also be brought on as a result of religious teachings (as is the case of Final Fantasy X's Yevonite religion or the real world Luddites), or as a result of a dichotomy such as Magic vs Technology (The Darksword Trilogy) or Nature vs Technology (FernGully or Avatar). Evil Luddite is an extreme example of this trope. This is a lot milder and often applies to some of the protagonists to create tension. Can be related to New Technology Is Evil and Science Is Bad. This trope covers technology in general as the primary motivator. Aversion of a specific type of technology (such as Doesn't Like Guns) might be Sub-Tropes. Technologically Blind Elders is a subtrope.
Technophobia	fetched	2023-11-14T01:15:54Z
Technophobia	parsed	2023-11-14T01:15:54Z
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Technophobia	processingComment	Dropped link to TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe: Not an Item - FEATURE
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Technophobia	processingUnknown	WarhammerFantasy
Technophobia	processingUnknown	Arcanum
Technophobia	isPartOf	DBTropes
Technophobia / int_1df8f66b	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_1df8f66b	comment	In the first episode of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, piously-Catholic Dot refuses to touch electric appliances because her priest warned that putting electricity through wires was unnatural and that "sooner or later, it'll come in contact with the molten centre of the earth and will blow up the whole world." She fights her fear at the end of the episode, using the telephone to call the police when Phryne doesn't return home from her mission.
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Technophobia / int_1df8f66b	featureConfidence	1.0
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_1df8f66b
Technophobia / int_247422c7	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington: The Church of Humanity Unchained started out this way. After landing on Grayson, the church split between the mainstream Graysons who saw technology as a tool (and an essential one if they wanted to survive) and the Faithful who still called for the destruction of the colony's technology.
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Honor Harrington	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_247422c7
Technophobia / int_30940081	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_30940081	comment	The altruist cult from Grand Theft Auto V is this. However, there are several examples of hypocrisy, as they have a website and make use of automobiles.
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Technophobia / int_30940081	featureConfidence	1.0
Grand Theft Auto V (Video Game)	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_30940081
Technophobia / int_31a48eed	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): In "Rule of Law", Judge Joshua Finch left Earth and took up the assignment of Fifth Circuit judge on the relatively isolated colony planet Daedalus because he hates anything to do with modern technology. For example, he eschews modern laser guns for an old-fashioned pistol. In "Lithia", the all-female society opposes most post-Industrial Revolution technology as a result of the earlier war destroying civilization with biological and nuclear weapons. For coordination, they allow a kind of video phone. This is the source of the conflict when Major Mercer tries to reintroduce an electrical mill in the community.
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The Outer Limits (1995)	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_31a48eed
Technophobia / int_3b0464ea	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_3b0464ea	comment	The remaining human population in The Chrysalids, which is basically a Post Apocalyptic version of the Amish, living in some of the few places hospitable to human habitation, albeit very pre-industrial.
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The Chrysalids	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_3b0464ea
Technophobia / int_400469e	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin's dad repeatedly makes his disdain for modern technology clear, especially where television and computers are involved. Note that he's a patent attorney.
Technophobia / int_400469e	featureApplicability	1.0
Technophobia / int_400469e	featureConfidence	1.0
Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_400469e
Technophobia / int_52fca0e9	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_52fca0e9	comment	Star Trek: Insurrection: The Ba'ku were once a warp-faring people, but after they settled in the Briar Patch they gave up all their technology in favor of a simpler lifestyle of farming. Sojef in particular is rather antagonistic towards it, seemingly trying to shield his son from any contact with it.
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Star Trek: Insurrection	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_52fca0e9
Technophobia / int_53a0bd32	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In "A Thing About Machines", Bartlett Finchley despises all machines, even more than he hates people, and destroys his appliances if he can't get them to work. For instance, he kicked in the screen of his television and threw his radio down the stairs.
Technophobia / int_53a0bd32	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Twilight Zone (1959)	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_53a0bd32
Technophobia / int_53a0bd8b	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Quarantine", the survivors of World War III in 2043 came to distrust and despise technology because nuclear weapons had wiped out 80% of the world's population. They abandoned machines in favor of improving humanity through genetic engineering and achieving harmony with the natural world.
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The Twilight Zone (1985)	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_53a0bd8b
Technophobia / int_55061ee1	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_55061ee1	comment	The Lord's Believers faction in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri are Christian Fundamentalists who are suspicious of secular science and fear the progress of technology drawing people away from faith in God. This manifests in-game as a penalty to their research stat.
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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (Video Game)	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_55061ee1
Technophobia / int_6e5d88b1	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_6e5d88b1	comment	Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends: The Banshees are a tribe of aliens that arrived on Earth and settled in the wilds of Ireland. Their society is close to the earth and nature, which makes them distrustful to downright homicidal when machines are involved. Sh'lainn is the only known exception, having a more progressive attitude toward technology (she was in favor of steam engines), but even she is frequently heard exclaiming, "I hate technology, I hate it!"
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Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_6e5d88b1
Technophobia / int_6e954e57	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_6e954e57	comment	The Viera of Ivalice (Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Final Fantasy XII) choose to remain in their forests sheltered from the outside world, thereby shunning technological advances that could harm nature.
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IvaliceAlliance	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_6e954e57
Technophobia / int_74fb542e	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_74fb542e	comment	Played for laughs in That Mitchell and Webb Look, in which a stone-age axe-chipper and the guy who ties his axes to sticks are confronted with the encroaching forces of (pre)modernity when their tribe chief makes them listen to a lecture from a gentleman representing a tribe who have discovered bronze smelting, which among other things makes much stronger axes. On learning that his axe-chipping skills are facing redundancy, the chipper is less than thrilled by the (slightly) shiny future-to-come.
Technophobia / int_74fb542e	featureApplicability	1.0
Technophobia / int_74fb542e	featureConfidence	1.0
That Mitchell and Webb Look	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_74fb542e
Technophobia / int_7f640c59	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_7f640c59	comment	A trait introduced in The Sims 3. Sims who are technophobes generally try to avoid any forms of technology, including television.
Technophobia / int_7f640c59	featureApplicability	1.0
Technophobia / int_7f640c59	featureConfidence	1.0
The Sims 3 / Videogame	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_7f640c59
Technophobia / int_86b52b7b	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_86b52b7b	comment	In I, Robot, there's Del Spooner, a Chicago police detective who hates and distrusts robots because one of them rescued him from a car crash, leaving a young girl to die because her survival was statistically less likely than his.
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I, Robot	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_86b52b7b
Technophobia / int_8c5f8573	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_8c5f8573	comment	In the American version of Being Human (US), some of the ancient vampires awake to pay a visit to the Chicago district. They are notably wary of all the technological advancements, and frequently make remarks about how the old ways were better.
Technophobia / int_8c5f8573	featureApplicability	1.0
Technophobia / int_8c5f8573	featureConfidence	1.0
Being Human (US)	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_8c5f8573
Technophobia / int_9888e7c2	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_9888e7c2	comment	Dan Vs.: In the episode "Dan vs Technology", Dan and Chris encounter a hermit named Hiram. He hates technology and can be angered by hearing about it. Hiram threatens to kill Dan and Chris after learning Dan likes television. Later in the episode, it is revealed that Hiram used to be the partner of Omicron CEO Barry Ditmer. Ditmer stole Hiram's ideas and inventions and took full credit for them. He then kicked Hiram out of Omicrom. As the result, Hiram disappeared from society and decided to shun technology.
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Dan Vs.	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_9888e7c2
Technophobia / int_9c6ceb95	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_9c6ceb95	comment	In the Age of Wonders games, Technophobia is a negative trait that be attached to Wizards at creation. It lowers that Wizard's production points in all cities.
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Age of Wonders (Video Game)	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_9c6ceb95
Technophobia / int_a81325d3	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy X: The religion of Yevon teaches that technology (Machina, as they call it) resulted in the destruction of their once-great civilization and the emergence of the creature known as Sin as their penance for their pride, which puts them at odds with the highly-mechanized Al-Bhed. Of course, this is a case of "do as we say, not as we do", as the party finds the Yevon headquarters to be quite technologically advanced, which causes major issues for devout Yevonites, like Wakka. Even more so when Maester Seymore just says, "Pretend you don't see them". The reason for the institutionalized technophobia is later revealed to be because Zanarkand was once at war with a Technologically Advanced Foe and created Sin to beat them. Then they kept Sin around to prevent the tech level from increasing enough to threaten Zanarkand again... even though it's now a ruin. The Al Bhed are mostly safe since they live in a desert... but not from conventional forces. The Viera of Ivalice (Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Final Fantasy XII) choose to remain in their forests sheltered from the outside world, thereby shunning technological advances that could harm nature.
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Final Fantasy (Franchise)	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_a81325d3
Technophobia / int_a9570fac	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_a9570fac	comment	Victoria: The Confederation restricts, or at least strongly discourages, the use of electronics and most modern technologies developed since the 1930s. But they don't object to new scientific discoveries; in fact, they're the world leader in the development of Super Science.
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Victoria	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_a9570fac
Technophobia / int_afaf11aa	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_afaf11aa	comment	The majority of the characters in SaGa Frontier 2, except Gustav and his army who use it and Iron Armour to make up for their lack of magic.
Technophobia / int_afaf11aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Technophobia / int_afaf11aa	featureConfidence	1.0
SaGa Frontier 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_afaf11aa
Technophobia / int_b37164a6	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_b37164a6	comment	Umma: Amanda's farm relies on wind power for electricity and she does not have a phone due to a sensitivity to electronics. The farm has a sign that reads "No motorized vehicles beyond this point". When Amanda's business partner drives in to pick up cases of her honey, he parks by the sign and leaves his phone and wristwatch in the car behind. In contrast, her uncle from Korea completely disregards the sign and drives in just feet from front door.
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Technophobia / int_b37164a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Umma	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_b37164a6
Technophobia / int_c2463c55	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X: The religion of Yevon teaches that technology (Machina, as they call it) resulted in the destruction of their once-great civilization and the emergence of the creature known as Sin as their penance for their pride, which puts them at odds with the highly-mechanized Al-Bhed. Of course, this is a case of "do as we say, not as we do", as the party finds the Yevon headquarters to be quite technologically advanced, which causes major issues for devout Yevonites, like Wakka. Even more so when Maester Seymore just says, "Pretend you don't see them". The reason for the institutionalized technophobia is later revealed to be because Zanarkand was once at war with a Technologically Advanced Foe and created Sin to beat them. Then they kept Sin around to prevent the tech level from increasing enough to threaten Zanarkand again... even though it's now a ruin. The Al Bhed are mostly safe since they live in a desert... but not from conventional forces.
Technophobia / int_c2463c55	featureApplicability	1.0
Technophobia / int_c2463c55	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy X (Video Game)	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_c2463c55
Technophobia / int_ccc80720	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_ccc80720	comment	An episode of My Life as a Teenage Robot has it to where Jenny, said teenage robot, gets a crush on a teenage boy who is scared of technology.
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Technophobia / int_ccc80720	featureConfidence	1.0
My Life as a Teenage Robot	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_ccc80720
Technophobia / int_d2ea0091	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_d2ea0091	comment	Cobra-La in G.I. Joe: The Movie. All their "technology", including weapons and vehicles, are entirely organic, and they consider human civilization and technology an abomination.
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Technophobia / int_d2ea0091	featureConfidence	1.0
G.I. Joe: The Movie	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_d2ea0091
Technophobia / int_dea46f95	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_dea46f95	comment	In Surrogates, there are "dread reservations" which consist of communities that strongly oppose the use of surrogate robots, which are used by the vast majority of the world's population to live their daily lives risk-free, while they consider them abominations and will attack surrogates if they come into their communities.
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Surrogates	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_dea46f95
Technophobia / int_dfe1eef5	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_dfe1eef5	comment	In the Anita Blake series, it's mentioned by Anita that really old vampires can be technophobes. They just aren't used to it and don't trust or understand new technology.
Technophobia / int_dfe1eef5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Anita Blake	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_dfe1eef5
Technophobia / int_e235270c	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_e235270c	comment	In Stellaris, the Spiritualist ethos is this. They are opposed to the Materialist focus which boosts research. They also dislike it if you allow the construction of Robotics and the enhancement of leaders. Funny enough, Robotics themself can get the Spiritualist ethos, leading to Synthetics demanding their own extinction. This was later patched to Spiritualistic Synthetics accepting themself.
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Stellaris (Video Game)	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_e235270c
Technophobia / int_e613a516	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_e613a516	comment	Industrial Society and Its Future: This was Kaczynski's reason for condemning all modern technology, arguing it was now damaging human beings since it's so different from the environment we evolved in originally, and was gradually enslaving us. He thought that if not stopped, we might end up in a dystopia like Nineteen Eighty-Four or Brave New World because of emerging technology such as artificial intelligence or bio engineering.
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Industrial Society and Its Future	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_e613a516
Technophobia / int_e6267766	type	Technophobia
Technophobia / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: The Yuuzhan Vong are a race that utilize engineered organic creatures where other races would use mechanical devices or droids. They see any mechanical technology as an affront to their gods and seek to destroy it and those who use it wherever they are found.
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Technophobia / int_e6267766	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Wars Legends (Franchise)	hasFeature	Technophobia / int_e6267766

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Technophobia	processingCategory2	Cyberpunk Tropes
Technophobia	processingCategory2	Fear Tropes
Technophobia	processingCategory2	Tropes on Science and Unscience
Pluggers (Comic Strip) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Danny Phantom: Blackmailed (Fanfic) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
I, Robot / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Paterson / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Star Trek: Insurrection / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Surrogates / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Star Wars Legends (Franchise) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Anita Blake / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Contacts / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Hannah Swensen / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
One of Us is Lying / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
The Glass Bees / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
The Way Things Work / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
EX-ARM (Manga) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Being Human (US) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Watchmen (2019) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Age of Wonders (Video Game) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (Video Game) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Equestria at War (Video Game) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
FTL: Faster Than Light Multiverse (Video Game) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Final Fantasy XII (Video Game) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
SaGa Frontier 2 (Video Game) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (Video Game) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Puffin Forest (Web Animation) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Shadowrun Corporate Sins (Web Video) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Stuart Hardy (Web Video) / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia
Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends / int_ba59ac1f	type	Technophobia

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