Luddite
noun
a member of any of various bands of workers in England (1811–16) organized to destroy manufacturing machinery, under the belief that its use diminished employment.
Luddism
-
a word derived from
Luddite.
Example Sentences
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"That refusal, that sort of aggressive denunciation of this particular use of AI, was basically Luddism."
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2023
Here’s Ben Tarnoff with a provocative piece in The Logic calling for a revival of Luddism to counter oppressive technology of the sort Clearview manufactures.
From The Verge ● Jan. 22, 2020
It is easy to conjure fear of enslavement to robots, and maybe resistance is futile Luddism.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2017
Others in Silicon Valley, most notably the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, have dismissed this concern as Luddism, assuring people that new jobs always replace the ones that vanish.
From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2016
Luddism, fanatical opposition to the introduction of machinery as it originally manifested itself among the hand-loom weavers of the Midlands.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
