Until very recently, I only understood the term "Luddite" to mean a person who was anti-technology and anti-innovation.
This provides some needed perspective.
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The Luddites are having a moment (again): they're being discussed and rehabbed everywhere from NPR to US Catholics Magazine to Psychology Today.
So, adapted from my book on the subject, here's a short-ish rundown of what you need to know to understand the Luddites in the age of AI.
The Luddites are back in fashion, but too many people still get them all wrong. This is what they really stood for, fought against, and why they matter now more than ever.
NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE
I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI
A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet
It's often a derogatory term used to describe digital dinosaurs and technophobes. That wasn't always the case. NPR's Word of the Week looks back at the not so backwards-looking Luddites.
