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Kirkpatrick Sale is at the tumultuous centre of a technology backlash, actively challenging Bill Gates on the one hand and the Unabomber on the other. The subject of bets, barbs, and grudging praise in the pages of WIRED, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The New Yorker, Rebels Against theā¦
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But can you fight the future? Isnāt it inevitable? This is often how tech companies try to make us think, and that anyone who opposes āprogressā is a Luddite. But, as Patrick Sale makes clear in this excellent and heartbreaking historical study, the original Ludditesāa protest movement that swept the industrial heartland of 19th Century Englandāwere not anti-technology; they merely thought technology should serve people, not profit. Faced with the destruction of their livelihoods and their traditional way of life, they destroyed machines and burnt factories because that was the only outlet they had for their rage and desperation. Andā¦
From Gareth's list on why we should rise up against our robot overlords.
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