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Luddite

A term for workers in the early 19th century in Britain who opposed the Industrial Revolution because increased mechanization was changing the economy and leaving them without jobs. The term has come to mean any person who opposes technological changes, especially those that impact the economy.
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non-expert) which are used to define the positions that some people hold as neo-Luddite, special interest or simply misinformed.
The social construction of science, risk and expertise. (Interfaces)
And with my pal Pricey coming round for supper and an on-demand film tonight, there has never been a better time to embrace my inner neo-Luddite and defy the cyber tyranny of the algorithm.
I've seen the future - and now I'm raging against the machine
While I have big problems with the neo-Luddite purist tendencies of this movement (and I ridicule them for their purism in the book), I do admire the way the eco-anarchists organize themselves by consensus, without authority or hierarchy.
John Locke, Original Hipster
This sensible view was rejected in favor of the neo-Luddite theory that a global police regime would be able to put the bio-weapons genie back in the bottle.
Secrets of Biological Warfare: Despite some glaring flaws, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War is an informative introduction to the 20th-century history of biological warfare. (Book Review)
Sounds as if you might empathize with Harry Mendelssohn, the deranged, neo-Luddite city librarian who rants and raves his way through ``Defiled,'' Lee Kalcheim's well-meaning but sketchily drawn and lead-handed new work about technology and its malcontents.
A WOULD-BE SATIRE IN SEARCH OF ITSELF
What distinguishes Escape Velocity from the recent slew of neo-Luddite tracts, from Sven Birkerts' The Gutenberg Elegies to the Unabomber manifesto, is the obvious relish with which Dery mines his cybercultural terrain.
Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century
The cult of information: A neo-luddite treatise on high tech, artificial intelligence, and the true art of thinking (2d ed.
Sustaining the culture of the book: the role of enrichment reading and critical thinking in the undergraduate curriculum
They reckon they're Neo-Luddite Culture Jammers, which is a superirritating way of saying they hate technology and consumerism.
I have a new enemy
The book's short and provocative answer is this: In a post-9/11 world, one in which religious and neo-Luddite fundamentalists at home and abroad seek to stymie individualism and technological advances, it's more important than ever to understand and appreciate what might be called the >>John Locke, Original Hipster
John Locke, Original Hipster: the enlightenment roots of counterculture
It is also doubtful that they find it too trivial to merit attention, for the brownlash writings that the Ehrlichs take on derive much of their strength from arraying themselves against the irrationalist and neo-Luddite sentiments of the more radical greens.
The Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future
Stoll's attack on cyber-life would be easier to dismiss if he were simply another neo-Luddite smashing computers out of ignorance or fear.
An interview with cyber-skeptic: Cliff Stoll
Because the only conceivable alternative to a world of human refuse, of serfs and slaves abandoned by an increasingly self-sufficient corporate cyber-media oligarchy, is a revolution of the lumpenproletariat (the formerly working class) based not in neo-Luddite refusal but in desire.
Serfs up!

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