Sentences with phrase «for luddite»

And, honestly, it was an interesting read even for a Luddite like myself.

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.

What's not to like must be left for the Luddites and flat - earth disciples — the sort who curse the day Porsche water - cooled the 911 or built the first Cayenne.

What a catastrophe for the Luddites!

Not exact matches

I'll leave it to naysayers and Luddites to quibble over the problems that we will overcome for this to happen.

Tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, for example, calls the jobless future «a Luddite fallacy»; he insists that people will be re-employed.

While certain generational stereotypes are broadly true — for instance, most boomers prefer face - to - face meetings while most millennials are happy to rely on e-mail or social media — experts agree it's dangerous for any young manager to assume anyone over 50 is a Luddite.

Yes, there are apps that can upload physical notes already, but this makes it easy for creatives to bypass the awkwardness of a stylus without going too Luddite.

(Here's a college kid who went Luddite for three months, deactivating his cell phone, e-mail, and social networks.

But for those not attempting the Luddite lifestyle, here are five tips to secure your online presence and avoid getting hacked.

I don't remember anything in the sermon on the mount about «blessed are the luddites for ignorance shall grant them passage into heaven».

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.

Thanks for always including detailed instructions for use Luddites!

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.

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...

Raab argued for, in The Future of Conservatism: Values Revisited, a further round of trade union reform arguing that «Luddite union leaders» block vital reforms needed to boost UK economic competitiveness.

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).

For someone who is singularly focused on expanding industry and technological innovation, Kravtsov is a bit of a Luddite, shunning email and social media.

«This is an opportunity for the United States to be energy - independent from the Muslim countries of the Middle East, and New York should be a leader, but instead, Cuomo just gives in to the environmental Luddites of the Democratic Party.»

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox plans an all - out - attack on Gov. Cuomo for «caving in to environmental Luddites» by refusing to approve «fracking» for natural gas in upstate's Southern Tier, The Post has learned.

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).

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.

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.

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.

There's a simplicity to the audio, climate, phone, and navigation controls that makes the cockpit divine for tech junkies and Luddites alike.

Luddites will slam APC, but for the mainstream, this has the ability to take the hassles out of driving while improving safety.

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Now, except for a few holdouts in the basements of the Church of Luddite, writers are taking the new technologies and running with them.

This is good advice for the internet «Luddite» like me.

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

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.

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.

For me the article just cemented what Baker, I believe, is about: a Luddite not about technology, but about his idea of what a corporation should act like.

Title: The Luddite's Guide to Technology Author: CJS Hayward Genre: creative non-fiction / religion and spirituality / technology — social aspects Rating: 4 stars Purchase: Amazon Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.

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.»

I should say I am a bit of a Luddite and don't own a Kindle, but it seems to me that people shop for e-books the way I shop for music.

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.

This method worked for us, but it's not exactly luddite friendly.

with how much of a stubborn, backwards - thinking luddite Einhander138 has shown himself to be on [sigh] EVERY.SINGLE.THREAD on here, I think it would be fair to hypothesize that he's also the exact type of stubborn, backwards - thinking luddite that games like this clearly aren't designed for.

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.

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)

Recent solo exhibitions include The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the deluded followers of Joanna Southcott, The Hepworth, Wakefield (made in association with Contemporary Art Society, Film and Video Umbrella and Wolverhampton Art Gallery) and Luke Fowler with Toshiya Tsunoda and John Haynes, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2012) for which he has been nominated for the 2012 Turner Prize.

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.

I'm not a Luddite — non-oil energy has to come from somewhere, and fast — but this process raises a lot of questions for me.

Basically Luddites to the core, they're just looking for any scrap of bad light to shine on science in general and technology in particular.

That first one operated for 24 years and its rated power was increased by a factor of nine during those years — a fantastic testament to the mechanical engineers who designed and built the first one... and a severe criticism of the Luddites who have been blocking progress ever since.