Sentences with phrase «technological luddite»

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

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

Not that banks are technological luddites.

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[1] Luddite is a term with a vague origin that has come to be the label of those who are strictly opposed to technological development.

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

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.

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

The CAGW Luddites want to send us back to a technological age similar to colonial times.

Like the original Luddites and their countless descendants through history, they resist technological progress because it makes them feel scared and insecure, clinging to any theory, no matter how crackpot, that helps to justify their position.

Whether he did it or not, he gave his surname to a movement — the Luddites — whose anti-automation influence persists to this day and whose name has come to mean anyone who actively or passively resists technological progress.

Luddites, technological «refuseniks,» and violence: Most respondents agreed that there will people who will remain unconnected to the network because of their economic circumstances and others who think a class of technology refuseniks will emerge by 2020.

This can be compared to the Luddite movement where part of the tension involved in the resistance to technological change derived from perceptions that the quality of goods being produced was below acceptable standards and was decreasing the reputations of their industries.

The Amish choose to control, and the Luddites sought to control, the rate and type of technological change they would adopt as a way to create and preserve the kinds of communities they want to live in.

The reference to monkeys with typewriters is intended solely to point out that technological «advances» are sometimes used to such ends that one wonders if perhaps the Luddites didn't have a point.