Therefore, the main concern from
Neo-Luddites is how to ensure that technology will solve human related issues such as socio-environmental ones without creating relatively dangerous issues such as global warming.
He is a
neo-Luddite without being a Luddite, a technologist warning the world about technology.
non-expert) which are used to define the positions that some people hold as
neo-Luddite, special interest or simply misinformed.
There are more Joes than there are Rogers, and that's fine if you're an anti-technology "
Neo-Luddite" like writers Kirkpatrick Sale and Alexander Cockburn.
The cult of information: A
neo-luddite treatise on high-tech, artificial intelligence, and the true art of thinking.
But my
neo-Luddite cynicism about termination has more immediate causes.
It puts in its place efficiency, interest, and economic advance." Postman recoils at "neobilogical" metaphors: "The computer, it is implied, has a will, has intentions, has reasons - which means that humans are relieved of responsibility for the computer's decisions." In The Cult of Information: A
Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking (Univ.
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.
The 24-year old singer, who used to be one of the music world's most prolific bloggers, said she renounced the popular social networking sites to become a "
neo-Luddite".
In her last ever Tweet, Lily said she is now a "
neo-Luddite".
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.
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.