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The Luddites were a group of English workers in the early 1800s who protested against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution that they felt threatened their jobs, often by destroying machines.
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Ned Ludd was supposedly the leader and founder of the Luddites or Luddite Movement. No proof to his existance has ever been found, but he is often thought to have come from the village of Anstey, just outside Leicester, where he broke two stocking frames in rebellion. He is thought of locally as having been the village idiot, and so it is very unlikely that he could be responsible for a movement such as the Luddites.
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Charles Babbage (1792 - 1871): his greatest claim to fame is that he didn't build the world's first computer - although he sure tried hard enough.
http://www.kerryr.net/pioneers/babbage.htm
Shadow Warriors (1996): also known as Techno-Fear. Directed by Lamar Card and starring Terry 0’Quinn, Timothy Patrick Cavanaugh and Evan Lurie. Tagline: John Tyler is dead. But he can still blow you away. Plot Summary: It began as an experiment. The ultimate bodyguard - half man, half machine - programmed to do anything...
Source: IMDb
In 1994, those 11-20 represented 6% of Internet users as compared to 1998 where they represented 17.2% of all users, with a difference of 11.2%. Those between 21 and 25 years of age in 1994 represented 25% of users, compared to 23% in 1998. This represents a decrease of 2% over four years. Those between the ages of 25 and 50 represent 36.66% of Internet users in 1998 as compared to 63% in 1994. The largest increase was for those who are 50 years of age and over. In 1994, those 50 years of age and over represented only 2 % of users as compared to 58.11% of users in 1998.
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Help desk: a service which provides information and help to people using a computer network. The help desk became common toward the end of the 20th century, with the rise of the personal computer. So many people had them, and they were so complicated, that users had to resort to calling a help desk for troubleshooting even the most trivial of problems. A tension began to grow between the knowledgeable "power users" who staffed help desks and the "unbelievably ignorant" users who would call in. Apparently, the help desk staff did not appreciate the magnitude of the gap in sophistication involved, or maybe they were just impatient
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The Technophobe’s Lament by Leslie Fish
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High-Tech Crackers
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The following are all technophobia-related oxymorons (two or more words used together which have, or seem to have, opposite meanings):
Microsoft Works
Apple tech support
bug-free software
click the start button to shut down
debugged program
understanding Unix
Source: http://www.oxymoronlist.com/
Jerusalem by William Blake
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.
Jerusalem and technophobia (1)
Jerusalem and technophobia (2)
On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. (Charles Babbage)
If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. (Michael Harrington)
If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. (Freeman Dyson, English)
It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine. (C. P. Snow)
One of the joys our technological civilisation has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. (Derek Jarman)
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. (Isaac Asimov)
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. (Alvin Toffler)
Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it. (Omar Bradley)
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. (J. G. Ballard)
Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. (C. P. Snow)
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