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* Magitek: The combination of magic with technology.

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* Magitek: MagiTek: The combination of magic with technology.
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* Magitek: The combination of magic with technology.
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* AlternateTechline: An alterante timeline where technology developed along unusual or different lines.

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* AlternateTechline: An alterante alternate timeline where technology developed along unusual or different lines.
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* NatureVersusTechnology: A dichotomy between the natural and the artificial.
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* NatureVersusTechnology: A dichotomy between the natural and the artificial.
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* ActivationSequence: A machine or system is brought online via a lengthy process.
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* CyberGreen: Technology being associated by the color bright green, or a combination of black and bright green.
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* VideoCallFail: A video call that goes horrendously wrong, usually on the part of the user.
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* InternetSafetyAesop: Think before you post and never give away personal information.
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* LivingProgram: A computer program that is sentient.
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* AutoIncorrect: A spellchecker, autocorrect, or speech-to-text program messes up user input.
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* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Making use of obsolete technology when the current stuff isn' available.

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* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Making use of obsolete technology when the current stuff isn' isn't available.

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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology

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* TheAestheticsOfTechnologyTheAestheticsOfTechnology: The tendency to portray advanced tech using specific aesthetics that have changed over time.



* AlternateTechline

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* AlternateTechlineAlternateTechline: An alterante timeline where technology developed along unusual or different lines.



** SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology
* BiotechIsBetter
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece
* CargoCult

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** SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology
* BiotechIsBetter
BiotechIsBetter: Organic technology portrayed as more advanced or better than mechanical technology.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece
BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Making use of obsolete technology when the current stuff isn' available.
* CargoCultCargoCult: Worship of technological artifacts.



* DiscoTech

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* DiscoTechDiscoTech: Technology that heavily involves music.



* GreaseMonkey / WrenchWench: A character that works with machines and usually gets filthy doing so.

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* GreaseMonkey / WrenchWench: GreaseMonkey: A character that works with machines and usually gets filthy doing so.



* HigherTechSpecies

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* HigherTechSpeciesHigherTechSpecies: A race with access to technology far more advanced than other races, but still mostly comprehendible for them.



* InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien
* LensmanArmsRace

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* InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien
InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Otherwise advanced aliens who lack some crucial technology.
* LensmanArmsRaceLensmanArmsRace: Warring factions developing increasingly high-tech and devastating weaponry.



* MachineEmpathy

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* MachineEmpathyMachineEmpathy: A character can diagnose machines just by feeling or listening to them.



* NewMediaAreEvil

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* NewMediaAreEvilNewMediaAreEvil: Arbitrarily-defined newer technology is seen as bad.



* OldMediaAreEvil
* OperatorIncompatibility

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* OldMediaAreEvil
OldMediaAreEvil: Arbitrarily-defined "traditional" media is seen as untrustworthy
* OperatorIncompatibilityOperatorIncompatibility: Technology difficult to operate because it was built for someone with different skills or body shapes.



* ReinventingTheWheel
* RockBeatsLaser
* SchizoTech
* TheSingularity
* TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe

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* ReinventingTheWheel
ReinventingTheWheel: In games, the upgrades you research don't carry over between campaign missions.
* RockBeatsLaser
RockBeatsLaser: Low-tech forces defeat high-tech forces.
* SchizoTech
SchizoTech: Anachronistic mixes of technology.
* TheSingularity
SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology: Supertech with stone to bronze age aesthetics.
* TechnologicallyAdvancedFoeTheSingularity: Increasingly rapid technological advances leading to increasingly alien or transcendent civilizations.
* TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe: The other guy's technology completely outclasses yours.



* ThisIsMyBoomstick
* TimTaylorTechnology

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* ThisIsMyBoomstick
ThisIsMyBoomstick: Showing modern technology to a less technic culture, usually in a threatening manner.
* TimTaylorTechnologyTimTaylorTechnology: You can fix or improve anything by plugging more power into it.


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* WrenchWench: A female mechanic.
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* TechnologicalPacifist: A character who things technology is great, except when used for warfare.

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* TechnologicalPacifist: A character who things thinks technology is great, except when used for warfare.
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Can you tell I'd been waiting for y'all to create this index for a looooong time? lol.


* TheAestheticsOfTechnology



* AlternateTechline



** SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology
* BiotechIsBetter
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece
* CargoCult



* DiscoTech



* GreaseMonkey: A character that works with machines and usually gets filthy doing so.

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* GreaseMonkey: GreaseMonkey / WrenchWench: A character that works with machines and usually gets filthy doing so.


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* ReinventingTheWheel
* RockBeatsLaser
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* ThisIsMyBoomstick
* TimTaylorTechnology
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%%* AppropriatedForeignTechnology: Another group borrows the technological accomplishments of those that come in contact with them for their own personal gains.
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* AppropriatedForeignTechnology: Another group borrows the technological accomplishments of those that come in contact with them for their own personal gains.

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* %%* AppropriatedForeignTechnology: Another group borrows the technological accomplishments of those that come in contact with them for their own personal gains.
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* AppropriatedForeignTechnology: Another group borrows the technological accomplishments of those that come in contact with them for their personal gains.

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* AppropriatedForeignTechnology: Another group borrows the technological accomplishments of those that come in contact with them for their personal gains.
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* WickedToymaker: Someone who creates evil toys; often technological in nature.
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* VirtualAssistantBlunder: When your smart devices don't quite get what you're trying to ask them.



* VirtualAssistantBlunder: When your smart devices don't quite get what you're trying to ask them.
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* VirtualAssistantBlunder: When your smart devices don't quite get what you're trying to ask them.

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* LuddWasRight: Modern technology is bad.


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Tropes pertaining to technology, those who use it, and people's attitudes towards it.
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* AliensNeverInventedTheWheel: An alien race lacks a technology that seems trivial to humans.
* BambooTechnology: Surprisingly functional facsimiles of advanced technology cobbled out of naturally occurring junk.
* CrapolaTech: Low-quality tech that just plain doesn't work.
* EnforcedTechnologyLevels: Rules exist limiting what kind of tech people can have.
* ETGaveUsWiFi: Technology is revealed to have been given to humans by aliens.
* EvilLuddite: A villain who opposes technology.
* GivingRadioToTheRomans: Giving modern technology to people in the past.
* GreaseMonkey: A character that works with machines and usually gets filthy doing so.
* HauntedTechnology: Machines with ghosts in.
* HomemadeInventions: Gadgets built on a budget and out of whatever happens to be on hand.
* HopelessWithTech: A character who just doesn't get technology or gadgets.
* LostTechnology: Tech that used to be widespread and effective, but which has since been lost to modern cultures.
* LowCultureHighTech: A culture using technology far in advance of what its state of development would suggest, usually for war.
* MachineWorship: Religious worship of specific machines or of technology in general.
* MagicFromTechnology: Using technology to do things effectively indistinguishable from magic.
* MagicVersusScience: Scientists and wizards are portrayed as antagonistic toward each other.
* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: A conflict between a person or faction who uses technology and one who uses magic.
* MergingMachine: A machine that merges different objects into a single combined thing.
* MrFixit: Someone who can fix and/or improve any gadget brought to them.
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: New tech presented as inherently superfluous and socially and morally damaging.
* NoTechButHighTech: Only counting advanced technology as being technology.
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: One-of-a-kind inventions in fiction tend to be impossible to recreate.
* OrganicTechnology: Technology made from or out of organic life.
* PlugNPlayTechnology: All technology is compatible and capable of being joined with all other technology.
* RagnarokProofing: Machines and structures that remain is surprisingly good shape long after being abandoned to the elements.
* TechnologicallyBlindElders: Old people don't know how to work new tech.
* TechnologicalPacifist: A character who things technology is great, except when used for warfare.
* TechnologyLevels: Cultural advancement represented as an advance through a series of discrete levels.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: A work becomes dated as real-life technology progresses past what it depicts.
* TechnologyPorn: Extensive focus on complex and/or advanced machines for audience appeal.
* TechnologyUplift: Giving a culture access to more complex technology than it currently has.
* {{Technopath}}: A person with power over machines.
* {{Technophobia}}: Someone who is afraid of technology and potential harm that can arise from its use.
* TechnoWizard: Someone who can do ''anything'' with computers.
* WalkingTechfix: Someone who's uncannily good at getting recalcitrant technology to work.
* WalkingTechbane: Someone who's uncannily good at wrecking every gadget they touch.
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