24 Opposites of Technology

John Spacey, updated on March 23, 2024

Technology is the use of knowledge to create tangible and intangible things that are useful. The closest antonyms of technology are words like nontechnical and untechnical. However, it is common for anything that is considered uniquely human or natural to be considered the "opposite" of technology. Expressed this way, technology has several potential opposites as follows.

Art	Classics
Crafts	Creativity
Culture	Emotion
Handmade	Human
Human Experience	Humanity
Imagination	Manual
Nature / Natural	Non-automated
Nontechnical	Organic
Personal Attention	Planet Earth
Traditional	Universe
Unmechanical	Unprocessed
Unsystematic	Untechnical

Summary

Opposites of technology include things that are natural, human, historical, traditional or relatively simple.

Discussion

Technically speaking, technology doesn't really have an opposite because it's a noun. However, closely related words such as the adjective technological certainly do have opposites as represented above.

Crafts are often a technology. For example, a wooden spoon can be viewed as a technology. From a pragmatic point of view, most handmade things aren't particularly technological in a modern context.

Culture are mostly intangible social things that aren't about technology. However, there is also a culture surrounding technology.

The human experience can include a large number of things that aren't necessarily technological such as social interaction. However, the modern human experience is greatly influenced by technology.

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