decelerationist

From deceleration +‎ -ist.

decelerationist (plural decelerationists)

1. (uncommon) A proponent of slowing down the pace of technological and economic progress; one opposed to accelerationism.

   Synonym: (informal) decel

   Antonym: accelerationist

   • 2014, Jason M. Adams, Occupy Time: Technoculture, Immediacy, and Resistance after Occupy Wall Street, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 97:

     The decelerationists, to the contrary, follow E.F. Schumacher, Kirkpatrick Sale and others (including a variety of Protestant denominations) in the belief that slowing down the technocultural and political economic pace, by engaging in local forms of democracy, will render global and national economic structures irrelevant.

   • 2022, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism, Policy Press, →ISBN, page 168:

     Decelerationists have the utopian fantasy that we all could dedicate ourselves to doing pottery in Tuscany all the time, but this is not how life works.

   • 2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 45:

     Of the three people who are often called the godfathers of A.I. […] the first two have recently become evangelical decelerationists, convinced that we are on track to build superintelligent machines before we figure out how to make sure that they're aligned with our interests.