21st Century Luddite: January 2011

Some interesting dates to remember when it comes to the Luddite Bicentenary celebrations:

Northern Voices: The Luddite Bicentenary: why history has a short memory

Quotations

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." - Farmers' Almanac, 1978

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." - Jef Raskin

"Hardware is the part of a computer that can be kicked, if all you can do is swear at it, then it must be software." - Anon, but very true.

“When the life of people is unmoral, and their relations are not based on love, but on egoism, then all technical improvements, the increase of man’s power over nature, steam, electricity, the telegraph, every machine, gunpowder, and dynamite, produce the impression of dangerous toys placed in the hands of children.” Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)

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