luddite

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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).

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  1. 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.

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

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  • 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
 

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