Some were muddled Luddites, others were angry locals whose houses were slated for demolition.
Although not Luddites, the immigrants struggle more than natives to adapt to hi-tech progress.
Despite popular opinion, baby boomers are not Luddites, but active users and shapers of technology.
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Is the Times, at least in its coverage of shale gas, throwing its lot with 21st century Luddites?
This week's European vote was an encouraging sign that the Luddites are retreating.
The exchanges might have moved faster but for the Luddites in their membership.
People with computer expertise who work among Luddites can easily exploit this tactic.
Some people do grumble, and they are not always judges' wives and Luddites.
And the really funny thing is that the Luddites of the record industry will be all the richer for it.
Workers have always worried that new technologies will take away their livelihoods, ever since the original Luddites' fears about mechanised looms.
Before his appointment, in a speech to Tory colleagues, he had described opponents of the government's planning reforms as "scaremongering Luddites".
People need to understand that what we are seeing now is not just more of the same whining by the Luddites.
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Luddites will thus be able to continue to frighten shoppers with fears that the meat has been treated with some sort of radioactive material.
The transformation exacted a price from possessors of old skills and of sunk capital, which is why the Luddites went around smashing machinery.
The Luddites understood that, which made them more coherent on the subject than some of today's sceptics, who oppose integration but not technological progress.
The photos and videos posted on the Met's Facebook page inflamed factions pro and con that contemptuously regard each other as Luddites and Jacobins.
Silicon is doing the same and has its potential Luddites, too.
There are two blind spots at work among the neo-Luddites.
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The second blind spot among the neo-Luddites is their failure to consider the gains we will receive as consumers from technological advances even as they misunderstand the reduced demand for labor technology may create.
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Well, now the Luddites have a new enemy of the state to vilify, the Variax Acoustic 700 guitar made by a company called Line 6, which for years now has been briskly selling digital modeling amplifiers that mimic the sonic characteristics of venerable guitar amps.
The Luddites wished to return to a more natural way of life, in which skilled craftsment could ply their trade and make a living, and in which civilization was not ravaged by all the ills of industrialization (including heavy metals and other factory-produced toxins poisoning millions).
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