Sentences with phrase «as luddites»

Law Firm Failure — the good kind Though they are easy to label as Luddites, some law firms are experimenting with technology and alternative means of legal service delivery.

As Luddites, others have looked for ways to sabotage these new machines.

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

I know the people who are raising questions about the validity of the study are being hammered as Luddites, but I tend to think this needs a bit more study before it's declared as gospel.

Defenders of print books usually rely on anecdote or intuition — which can make it easy to dismiss them as Luddites or romantics.

They label those who question whether we are advancing in the best direction as Luddites, extremists or pressure groups, thereby deflecting attention from their own alliance with the most successful pressure groups, such as doctors and medical scientists.

People need to feel able to voice concerns about automation without being dismissed as luddites holding the country back.

Shunning progress would be as futile now as the Luddites» protests against mechanised looms were in the 1810s, because any country that tried to stop would be left behind by competitors eager to embrace new technology.

Herzog's USP here is that, as a luddite who doesn't even carry a mobile phone, he is essentially a technological tourist, an outsider looking into the digital world.

GM's developed - in - house eight speed automatic is as smooth and intuitive here as I've experienced in its products elsewhere, but as a luddite, my choice would still be a manual.

While no surprise to booksellers, this will surprise many in the wider community because booksellers» tardiness getting into the ebookselling game has often been seen as a Luddite position: defending paper, bricks and mortar against the digital onslaught.

As a Luddite, she helped me to see where authors with little experience in social media needed more explanation.

Not to be on Facebook runs the risk of being seen as a Luddite, or worse, part of the tinfoil - hat - brigade.

Not exact matches

However, it has little to do with Kaczynski's luddite philosophy, which is presented as the spiritual heart of the show.

While it may very well be true that Heidegger sounds as if he is arguing for a pre-modern, pre-mechanized society, perhaps leaning toward a Luddite perspective, and while it also may appear that McLuhan is arguing for the continued evolution of technology that will enhance society, perhaps smacking of a full - blown techophilism, both theorists come together on the primary assertion that they make - technology has a profound and invisible shaping force on our epistemic values, perceptions of reality and truth, and cultural values and norms.

Thomas is no Luddite, however, as his concluding reflections make clear.

Arsenals problem isnt wenger, its an owner who uses the club solely for collateral for other projects, demanding a huge cash mountain to be kept in the process, as well as a stale luddite control freak manager who is allowed to stay indefinitely, unchallenged, as he keeps silent and goes along with the ebbs and flows of the owners cash needs.

Not surprisingly, as the hand - written letter movement has become the luddite compliment to unlimited digital harassment of college football recruits, recruiting coordinators found a problem: Kids were sharing their huge one - day post office hauls on Twitter and Facebook, but they might have not been actually reading the letters.

Steve Rowley is still being kept on despite being a Luddite as far as examination of player data is concerned.

It also creates issues with Luddite citizenry such as the Amish, who on matters of religion do not use certain technologies, including cell phones and the internet, so an alternate way of re-deligation would need to be established for them (perhaps a service that will hold their votes in a way that can be trusted to vote in their interests).

«Andrew Cuomo has given into the radical environmental Luddites in his own party to leave New York as the only one of 35 states with extractable natural gas to be missing out on the hydro - boom,» said Cox.

After his sacking Professor Nutt described Government policy as «Luddite» and has warned that Council members will resign because of his treatment.

The loudest voices on the proponent side are typically cast as shills for Big Agriculture (some of them are), while the loudest on the anti-GMO side are typically cast as fear - mongering luddites (some of them are).

Ghost is very much a film of its time, just as the also - Rubin - scripted Jacob's Ladder, from the same year, pinged off the cultural climate in another real, essential way by predicting not the death of the Eighties, but the transformation of the aggressive Eisenhower delusions of Reagan's voodoo cowboy foreign policy into the «history will teach us nothing» nihilism of the fast - digitizing, Luddite, Born - Again Nineties.

Although Jennifer Tilly is trapped in the middle of the plot as our delusional Norma Desmond, it's Mancini himself who plays that part: a cinematic Luddite, he's latching on to long - obsolete concepts with all his might, minus any perspective on the reality of the situation.

As you know, there have been many times in the past where people panicked over technology displacing workers, starting with the Luddites in the 19th century.

Now, they know that some parent groups and right - wing bloggers have concerns, but when brainstorming on all this, the champions have trouble seeing this pushback as anything other than the maddening complaints of conspiracy - minded, parochial luddites.

And unlike the Renegade, the six - speed manual will be available with all - wheel - drive as well as front - wheel - drive models, just for automotive luddites like me.

Given the amount of «most significant» and «most technologically advanced» (as opposed to «most Luddite»?)

Before I'm accused of being a Luddite, I have no problem with technology but I do with the prospect of being told what to do by a machine and the fear that one day a non-driving legislator might view the «drivers» viewpoint as irrelevant in the wider sense of transport for the masses.

For luddites who get a car with adaptive cruise control and think they're more alert than the car, there's an option to downgrade ACC to work as vanilla cruise control.

As a technology writer for more than a decade, I hardly consider myself a Luddite.

For a long time I was getting a reputation as this weird book luddite, but what I was doing was preserving my ebook virginity.

Say hi to Sarah (Luddite Luddington) everyone, she's one of those people who's great to know, full of publishing market knowledge as well as fascinating and fun books.

Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter says physical bookstores are good places to win Kindle converts, as «the only people who don't have Kindles who should have Kindles are luddites who also read.»

We're not Luddites against technological change, as some Amazonians would have you believe.

He then attaches a book of his own choosing to the canvas as a sort of wall - mounted reading station: a Luddite podcast.

As far as it goes, this is one of the things I say to people generally, and specifically in response to things like being called a Luddite (by people who do not understand the term), having people throw the loin cloths and H - G Red Herring / Straw Man about, etcAs far as it goes, this is one of the things I say to people generally, and specifically in response to things like being called a Luddite (by people who do not understand the term), having people throw the loin cloths and H - G Red Herring / Straw Man about, etcas it goes, this is one of the things I say to people generally, and specifically in response to things like being called a Luddite (by people who do not understand the term), having people throw the loin cloths and H - G Red Herring / Straw Man about, etc..

The real CAGW warmistas and their grant - sucking comrades in government and academia use the implication of catastrophe to hide their silly belief in a Marxian / Luddite Utopia have driven the climate debate into the ditch by labeling everyone who does not wish to don a hair - shirt as a WUWT denier.

He had a catalogue and his Martellum Martis of 1665 was not so much a paper on fining techniques as a plea that Parliament should stop the Luddite charcoal burners from destroying his furnaces.

Any criticism of renewable resources is dismissed as the utter nonsense of luddites of highly questionable motivation.

You [and many more] really think you've found the holy grail with this one don't you BilB, the rational to tax and command every human for the original sin of living on the planet, especially all those neo fascist luddite racist sexist misogynist bodgy capitalists who do all those things and give you all that stuff only to expect payment for it when the government should take it and give them to you free; you can finally bring the commanding heights of the world's industry and agriculture and lifestyle under the infallible control of an inter government body and everyone who is permitted will be in his permitted place doing his permitted thing and all will be as it should be and the planet will be safe for the polar bears and the spirogyra.

Hilarious Bart as anti-science, Luddite denier!

It is true that there may be the moralistic environmentalist luddite types who have a rather apocalyptic view of the future and thus they are attracted to AGW the way that Christian evangelicals are attracted to the idea of war between Israel and the Arab world as the hopeful harbinger of Armageddon.

As a relative technological luddite, I've only been thinly aware of Foursquare's location - based take on the social networking experience.

One way to put it is that Luddites have been as reliably wrong as Malthusians.

If you think of the Supreme Court as a judicial luddite, think again.

When I wrote 409A as a Service: Cash Cows Get Slaughtered a few years ago, highlighting how eShares was using their own technology to trim the fat in an industry that (in my opinion) really was in many cases extorting startups, the response from the luddites was predictable.

As part of the tour, my Luddite tendencies were lessened somewhat by learning that Mies also designed Barcelona chairs, thereby establishing another minor law - related connection with Mies and the Farnsworth House: my firm has Barcelona chairs in the reception of our Toronto office:

If my attitudes condemn me as a technological luddite then I shall have to bear that characterization with such fortitude as I can command.