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Examples

  • I am a Mac loving ludite and when the apple nips you, it gets you hard.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Another Outspoken Female 2008

  • And this download day will be accompanied by a ludite action.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Jak Boumans 2008

  • And this download day will be accompanied by a ludite action.

    Archive 2008-05-24 Jak Boumans 2008

  • The latest to succumb is Mid and West Wales AM, Lisa Francis, who in her first post admits to 'slightly ludite- tendencies'.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • The latest to succumb is Mid and West Wales AM, Lisa Francis, who in her first post admits to 'slightly ludite- tendencies'.

    Another one! 2006

  • I've got to believe what the AI is doing (ludite?) and why it's doing it (narrativist?) to feel truly immersed.

    The Pathos of Nintendogs 2005

  • "I am rich, I have enough, _Sat me lusistis, ludite nunc alios_, I will work and fret myself no more, I will retire on my dividends, and sit me down under my own fig-tree," -- Fortune dismisses him with a sneer:

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

  • Never cell phones, never computers, iPads, stuff like that, the self-described ludite explained.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Alex Moaba 2012

  • You can also begin to destroy the ludite power of the teaching unions, who deserve no lesser fate.

    The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum 2010

  • I'm no ludite and love Windows 7 but see little reason to move on up to Office 2010 or even

    The Guardian World News 2010

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