[tpaine]

The luddites will always be with us.


---Lessons from the Luddites---


Technologies are never neutral, and some are hurtful.

Industrialism is always a cataclysmic process, destroying the past, roiling the present, making the future uncertain.

What purpose does this machine serve?

What problem has become so great that it needs this solution?

Is this invention nothing but, as Thoreau put it, an improved means to an unimproved end?

Who are the winners?

Who are the losers?

Will this invention concentrate or disperse power, encourage or discourage self worth?

Can society at large afford it?


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Can "society at large" afford luddites?

[Inge_CAV]

It will never replace a magic carpet.......