Sentences with phrase «century luddite»

The vision of a nearly immortal populace squelching the job prospects of youth is reminiscent of 19th - century Luddite concerns about machines» taking over jobs from humans.

In some ways, they resemble the 19th century Luddites — the English textile workers who destroyed labor saving machinery in textile mills.

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In the early 19th Century, Luddites destroyed mechanized looms in a vain attempt to forestall the effect of the industrial revolution on employment patterns in the textile industry.

Of course, this has been a recurring fear since the «Luddites» were smashing textile machinery in early 19th - century England, if not before, but relatively recent advances in robotics and machine intelligence have brought the issue to the fore again.

Maybe, just maybe, these physicians are trying to save women and children from this Luddite fantasy that the «good» old days of a century ago — when childbirth was the most dangerous time point in a woman's life — are something we should aspire to recreate.

Romney is a Luddite and we are in the 21st Century we need a President with «Big Ideas» and not someone routed in the past.

The term «Luddites» comes from the early 19th - century English textile workers who smashed newly introduced automated weaving machinery that signaled the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.

Jon White reinforces the concept that the loom - breaking Luddites of early 19th - century England were focused on their own concerns (25...

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.

In the early 19th century, British textile artisans protested the Industrial Revolution with the anti-technology «Luddite movement.»

Don't know what it is with these neo luddites hanging on by the skin of their teeth to what essentially amounts to 19th century technology.