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As the article mentions, "-stat", and "-matic" are two other suffixes that were used to convey high-tech in the mid 20th century. Another one was "-rama" (presumably derived from the Cinerama panoramic technology created to attract viewers back to movie theaters in the 1950s when TV was beginning to take away their audiences).

Or -ola a few decades before - Pianola, Motorola, Victrola, Crayola, Granola, Cola...

Emblems of "newness", like coolness, lose that quality pretty quickly. Even post-modern is old hat.

What currently connotes newness? Or is the present age so dystopian and pessimistic that we lack one?

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