Donnacha DeLong: "Nedd Ludd’s gang of angry artisans were not conservatives and were not opposed to technology. Like us, they were opposed to the way machines were being used to destroy wages, conditions and the professionalism they brought to their tra

Clay Shirky: "A Luddite argument is one in which some broadly useful technology is opposed on the grounds that it will discomfit the people who benefit from the inefficiency the technology destroys … especially if the discomfort of the newly challenged