Luddite

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Anyone who pointed out that he lacked relevant experience, never having managed in England or at international level, was labelled a luddite Little Englander. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Did I really just get called a luddite by a guy who wants to roll economic policy back to the child labor days? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Before you accuse me of being a "luddite," let me tell you I get it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With my husband's dismissal of the idea as "luddite", I decided to go to my in-laws weekly family lunch instead. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But aside from the public relations issues that come with being branded a "luddite," there are real dollars and cents issues at play, as well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Characterising a movement that has a massive web presence including multiple Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Youtube accounts as "luddite" does very little for your credibility as "someone who understands what words actually mean". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Abbott, a "luddite" for appearing to have nothing to do with his party's technology policies, on a day in which the Canberra press gallery also criticised the Opposition Leader on the issue. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This doesn't drastically change the Sony PRS v. Kindle dynamic, it could help Sony's readers appeal to a certain special kind of luddite: the one who is somehow fine with eBooks, but for whom contemporary fiction and fancy "Whispernet" technologies, "nice screens" and ❋ Unknown (2009)

In popular parlance, a "luddite" is a person who despises or fears things that are designated technology. ❋ Unknown (2009)

'luddite' move - rather, it's looking forward, rather than being chained to the problems of possessing that 'thing in the corner'. ❋ Admin (2010)

'luddite' is no bad thing: far from closing their eyes to progress, the 19th century workers who protested against industrialisation by destroying mechanical looms were prescient about the consequences of the mechanical age. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“In our viral era, making a media splash is more valuable than publication,” says Markides A self confessed recovering luddite, he is throwing everything at this project in terms of what is available for free on the internet – utilising the power of cross platform presence and participation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dr. VERGHESE: Well, I want to begin by saying that I'm not a luddite, and it's not that I don't like technology, but there really are so many things that are quite self-evident on the body if you only look and know how to examine a patient. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Do you consider yourself to be a luddite or a nerd? ❋ Stuart O'Connor (2010)

Matthew Yglesias: This is all correct, and yet despite his protestations to the contrary, it just amounts to Packer offering a luddite argument. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is all correct, and yet despite his protestations to the contrary, it just amounts to Packer offering a luddite argument. ❋ Unknown (2010)

February 17th, 2010 at 10: 30 pm matt, short enough to fit in a tweet: that packer thinks twitter is unhelpful does not mean he is a luddite. just that he is neither so sure of his pithiness nor so self-indulgent enough to think a half thought worth posting. luckily, i am not so self-constrained. joejoejoe says: ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is not based on science --- but a luddite contempt for progress. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Keep the oikes in 19th century luddite ignorance, Oliver style. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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