[FITZ]

I presume that somebody who proposes retiring a failed '60s technology is a Luddite.

It's an new meaning of the word "luddite". Luddites used to be people who insisted on using humans to do what computers could do. It's all reversed.

[Man of the Right]

No. Luddites were a supposed movement of English cottage industry textile workers who destroyed power looms around 1800. Individuals who lack defensible arguments for spending public funds on a program use the term as an epithet for opponents to try to end debate.