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US
/ˈɫəˌdaɪt/
]
NOUN
- any opponent of technological progress
- one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
How To Use Luddite In A Sentence
- Those Luddites who once argued that we should protect jobs by resisting advances in labor-saving technology are rightly regarded as fools by today's peddlers of standard economic wisdom. The High Cost of a Cheap Pound
- At the furthest extreme of the preservationist end of the spectrum is what used to be called the appropriate technology movement and now is sometimes called the neo-Luddite movement.
- Also it ultimately is unsatisfiable as the Luddites will always say the latest restrictions aren't enough to make the world perfect. The Guardian on David Cameron
- ‘I used to checker every pair by hand, but I bought a CNC,’ laments the reluctant Luddite.
- A visit to the parlor from the Marmion Plantation in Virginia located in the Met's Gallery 720, however, might provide a bit of encouraging perspective; some of the descendants of the slaves who likely tended the parlor's guests may have been lured into subprime mortgages while their White counterparts were given better deals, but you'd have to be dottier than a guy who wants to arrest judges not to realize that we are all better off than we were during the "good old days" for which certain social luddites yearn. Tanya M. Acker: Ditch the Xanax: Why the Metropolitan Museum Is a Better Cure for American Grumpiness
- Castle in Sybil, for example, becomes a vast Luddite uprising in _The Difference Engine_ in the Romantics Classroom
- It's true that a lot of his arguments can seem like the ravings of a Luddite: his accusation, for instance, that modern lawyers and doctors make people more irresponsible and greedy.
- I'm a luddite in comparison with some of the people I follow on Twitter, but a nerd in comparison with many people.
- The gridder cults cover a wide political spectrum from environmental lunatics to anti-abortion assassins to right wing luddites determined to gut the liberal robot equality laws. Art & Me
- These neo-Luddites may represent the most extreme reaction to technostress, but if we're smart about it, they remind us to try to keep in balance the demands of the future with the need for some degree of stability and familiarity.
