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Neophilia is defined as a love of novelty and new things. A neophile is an individual who is unusually accepting of new things and excited by novelty.

The word has particular significance in Internet and hacker culture. The New Hacker's Dictionary gave the following definition to neophilia -

The trait of being excited and pleased by novelty. Common among most hackers, SF fans, and members of several other connected leading-edge subcultures, including the pro-technology ‘Whole Earth’ wing of the ecology movement, space activists, many members of Mensa, and the Discordian/neo-pagan underground (see geek). All these groups overlap heavily and (where evidence is available) seem to share characteristic hacker tropisms for science fiction, music. The opposite tendency is neophobia.


Recent research uncovered a possible link between certain predisposition to some kind of neophilia and increased levels of the enzyme monoamine oxidase A.[1]

See also

References

1. ^ The disorder of these times, neophilia, by Heidi Dawley, published June 18, 2006, retrieved on May 22, 2007
Neophile is a term used by counterculture cult writer Robert Anton Wilson to describe a particular type of personality. A neophile can be defined as a personality type characterized by a strong affinity for novelty.
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Hacker has several common meanings, the unifying characteristic of which is only that it refers to a person who is an avid computer enthusiast. It is most commonly used as a pejorative by the mass media to refer to a person who engages in illegal computer cracking, which is its
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Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi
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The Whole Earth Catalog was a sizeable catalog published twice a year from 1968 to 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. Its purposes were to provide education and "access to tools" in order that the reader could "find his own inspiration, shape his own
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The global ecology movement is one of several new social movements that emerged at the end of the sixties; as a values-driven social movement, it should be distinguished from the pre-existing science of ecology.
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Mensa International

Mensa logo

Formation 1946
Type High IQ Society
Location worldwide
Membership approx 100,000
Key people Roland Berrill
Dr. Lance Ware
Website www.mensa.
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Discordianism is a modern, chaos-centered religion founded circa 1958–1959 by Malaclypse the Younger with the publication of its principal text, the Principia Discordia.
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Neopaganism or Neo-Paganism is an umbrella term used to identify a wide variety of new religious movements, particularly those influenced by ancient and pre-Abrahamic Pagan religions.[1][2]

These movements are extremely diverse.
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geek is a slang term, noting individuals as "a peculiar or otherwise dislikable person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual".[1] Formerly, the term referred to a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the
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Neophobia is the fear of new things or experiences. It is also called cainotophobia. In psychology, neophobia is defined as the persistent and abnormal fear of anything new. In its milder form, it can manifest as the unwillingness to try new things or break from routine.
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Identifiers
Symbol MAOB

Entrez 4129
HUGO 6834
OMIM 309860

RefSeq NM_000898
UniProt P27338
Other data
EC number 1.4.3.4
Locus Chr. X p11.4-p11.3 Monoamine oxidases (singular abbreviation MAO) (EC 1.4.3.
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Hipster may refer to
  • Hipster (1940s subculture)
  • Hipster (contemporary subculture)
  • Hipster, jeans
  • The Hipster PDA, a paper-based personal organizer

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Technophilia is, in its simplest definition, a strong enthusiasm for technology, especially newer technologies such as computers, the Internet, cell phones and home theater.
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Technophobia is the fear of, or revulsion to, modern technology and is the opposite of technophilia. Sometimes the term is used in the sense of an irrational fear while others defend that the fears are justified.
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Futurism was a 20th century art movement. Although a nascent Futurism can be seen surfacing throughout the very early years of the twentieth century, the 1907 essay Entwurf einer neuen Ästhetik der Tonkunst
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Origin

The first known usage of the phrase "Trust Your Techno lust" in film was the movie Hackers (film). It showed up in the background of the ending hack scene, pasted onto numerous phone booths.

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