21st Century Luddite

Luddite (noun, dating from 1811) - name taken by a group of protesters who destroyed machinery in Midlands and northern England 1811-16 for fear it would deprive them of work. Name supposedly originates from Ned Ludd, a Leicestershire worker who had wrecked machinery in 1779. Name is applied to modern rejecters of automation and technology from at least 1961.

Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Can A Computer Do Your Job – And Does It Want To?

More food for thought...

http://blogs.voanews.com/digital-frontiers/2011/10/03/robopocalypse/

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"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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