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One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.

one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
any opponent of technological progress

After logging out of my blog I started furiously googling to try to verify the existence of my blog to my mildly technophobe, luddite-wannabe self which suffers interminable incredulity regarding the efficacy of anything I try to do 'online'.
Environmental (almost luddite-like) messages are common to Miyazaki's work. — F ;SF - vol 105 issue 03 - September 2003
In a few cases I use e-mail at work when the recipient is a luddite (i.e. never answers the phone, which I think is rude, arrogant, and unprofessional, and doesn't have or doesn't use IM). — How to Save the World
I know I am going to sound like a luddite (but really I'm not, my house has 3 wintels, 2 macs, 3 cell phones, 3 ipods and a BB). — Pogue's Posts
This may mark me as a luddite, but I actually like the folders in Mail, as I use them for archiving. — TheAppleBlog