Sentences with phrase «luddite at»

I think that Chad is right — Crichton is a Luddite at heart.

We're all Luddites at times.

It isn't easy to get out in front of new technology when you've got proud Luddites at the top of the heap of your profession.

Not exact matches

However, we must also notice the obvious Luddite [1] bent in these positions that places technology at the center and at the periphery of society filling it at all points in between with itself.

Two years ago, United were thwarted by the Luddites over at Real Madrid who supposedly couldn't figure out how to work a fax machine in time to complete the deadline - day transfer of keeper David De Gea.

While I'm very far from a Luddite, one of the reasons that we specifically chose a Waldorf education for our three children was the limitations on technology and media exposure at a young age, which allows them to develop a better sense of «self» so that when they interact with media and technology they are coming from a position of strength and not one of being manipulated by the media / technology.

While I'm very far from a Luddite, one of the reasons that we specifically chose a Waldorf education for our three children was the limitations on technology and media exposure at a young age, which allows them to develop a better sense of «self» so that when they interact with media and technology they are...

To argue otherwise is to risk being called a Luddite, a medievalist, or at least a romantic nostalgic.

In that regard, I was singular among my single friendsthe Luddite left on the platform at the train station.

Conversation, too, tends to be maddeningly circuitous, with points made about the picture's Luddite slant and made again for good measure and made a third time because both men have evidently arrived at the same unspoken conclusion: that Seabiscuit is no enigma.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

Now, here at evo we're proud Luddites when it comes to changing gear, but in recent months even we've had to admit that some of the latest paddle - operated manual «boxes are getting close to perfection.

«Driving the i8 at speed is like getting a glimpse of a wowie - zowie future that even a Luddite can embrace.»

Wolf is no Luddite: She fully embraces what she calls the «bi-literate brain,» one equally at home in the digital and analog worlds, but warns that e-readers can deceive us.

At present it will be another target for the anti-ebook Luddite brigade

I entirely agree that you don't have to be a Luddite to get irritated at touch screens, and I certainly do NOT think a preference for touch screens makes me superior.

However, at the risk of sounding like a borderline Luddite, I minimize the use of tech in my personal life for the sake of my own privacy and peace of mind.

Frankly, I'm pretty much of a Luddite, but now it's so funny for me to be at the cusp of this new technology.»

No one, no matter how much a Luddite they are, is going to be opposed to that,» says Kevin Kraynick, senior producer of Internet development at HarperCollins, which has offered up 10 books for the SoftBook pilot program.

«I may be a luddite but at least my books will still function after the collapse of civilization.»

Up until I decided to stop being a technophobic luddite and finally pick up a smartphone, I used to scoff at the notion that mobile games were becoming serious contenders against consoles and computers.

The resulting work by Fowler, The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott, will open to the public for the first time at the Hepworth Wakefield on 23 June.

The title is a quotation from E.P.Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, in which the historian and long - time extramural lecturer at Leeds University tried «to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the «obsolete» hand - loom weaver, the «utopian» artisan and even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity».

The new work he is showing at the Hepworth, The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcote is the result of his winning the Contemporary Art Society's «Commission to Collect» award, which the Hepworth won jointly with the Wolverhampton Art Gallery.

To - Get - Her, Naked Under Her Clothes, Luddite, and Their Space open on July 27 with a reception from 6 pm until 9 pm at LAAA's Gallery 825, located at 825 North La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood.

I mean, I'm not a Luddite, I have all the modern devices, but so far they haven't changed the nature of the stuff that matters, at least to me.

At 31, Sam Falls is something of a luddite.

What You See Is Where You're At (2001, short), The Way Out (2003, short), Pilgrimage from Scattered Points (2006, short), Bogman Palmjaguar (2007, short), Paddington Collaboration (2007, short), Achterhaven Splinters (2008, short), An Abbeyview Film (2008, short), Another Day of Gravity (2008, short), George (2008, short), A Grammar for Listening (parts 1 - 3)(2009, short), Anna (2009, short), David (2009, short), Helen (2009, short), Lester (2009, short), All Divided Selves (2012, doc), The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluted Followers of Joanna Southcott (2012), Depositions (2014, short), To the Editor of Amateur Photographer (2014, co-dir, doc)

The future of fresh homegrown food may be an indoor one, at least in the cold season and for those without garden space, and although I'm a bit of a Luddite when it comes to gardening, it's fairly obvious to me that there are plenty of situations where growing food indoors makes sense, even if it entails buying yet another plugged - in appliance.

According to many of my friends here at Climate etc., the IPCC is nothing other than a collection of frauds working in cohoots with eco-Nazis in a plot to make the world a socialist, Luddite, paradise.

Except the poor lonely warmist at # 37, who starts «Dear Luddites...».

Isn't it amazing that our engineers could build that in 18 months (from breaking ground to in - operation) 70 years ago, but now, thanks to 50 years of Luddites blocking progress, it takes us 5 years to build a plant at many times higher real cost.

Twenty years ago, when Hansen of GISS (Goddard Institute of Space Science) first resorted to duckspeak («warm is cold,» etc.), Michael Crighton noted: «Freeze or fry, the enemy is always free - market entrepreneurial capitalism, the solution is always bureaucratic State socialism» — that is, wastrel Luddite modes consciously aiming to blast individualist bourgeois consumer culture at its very roots.

We'd all signed up for Denial101x, a new, six - week MOOC (that's «massive open online course,» for all you education luddites) aimed at making sense of this whole phenomenon — and at giving us the tools to fight deniers, so that we can all get on with fighting climate change itself.

TL; DR: Luddites pretend that technology can't out - do them at anything.

Luddite lawyers may be more common than Technophiles, but there is usually at least one Technophile in every group of lawyers.

Don't always look at solos and lawyers in small law firms as luddites or curmudgeons because they don't have a website.

If you consider the sensitive nature of the information on most lawyers» computers, plus the proud Luddites making technology decisions at most law firms, this should come as no surprise.

That will make a difference at least until our computers have the horsepower to turn, by brute force enumeration, those famously random Shakespearean monkeys into Luddites.

I mean a true Luddite, someone whose active phobia or erosive disinterest in the application of technology at your firm is strangling the inflow of new cash, clients and exciting work that makes it possible for you to get up in the morning.

At the risk of seeming like luddites, many on the TechnologyGuide team feel smartphones leave very few pain points that Android Wear can address.