Technological progress develops new type of human conduct - technosexuality
"A nurd has taken a shape of a good-looking stylish man, who hardly has any interest in his own or even in the opposite sex. Such a person is interested in his laptop, latest and most expensive models of cellular phone, plasma TV sets, Bluetooth, and so on and so forth. Such men are not hopeless, though: they can be absolutely happy, if they find a technologically-dependant girl. A technosexual girl can spend days surfing the world wide web, spending hours in chatrooms, buying things on the Internet and playing music on her mp3 player doing those things."
This article is describing an infantile, uber-materialist mentality. And I'm not sure I see where the "sexual" part comes in; it seems to me the craving for new and better gizmos is garden-variety "must-have" technophilia, which is nothing new.
But "technosexual" certainly sounds cooler.
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Well, at least I'm not a technosexual nurd then. I would've thought they'd be referring to the technological advances we make in our effort to download porn even faster, and/or how people utilizes technology to get sexual satisfaction. But I guess their word sells better if they stick "sexual" in there.
I agree; there's nothing "sexual" about upgrading a laptop computer. Unless, possibly, if you're a character in a J.G. Ballard novel.
Technosexual marriage...Should it be legalized???
Coming soon to a democracy near you!
(Who knows? Maybe some nurds will start demanding the right to marry their laptops.)
If Bush hears about it, he'll propose a Constituional Amendment against it.
--WMB
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