If a person is a Luddite in the modern age, that supposedly means they are a hard-headed reactionary irrationally frightened by technology. While the rest of the world enjoys computers ...

When Duolingo announced their AI-first policy, outraged consumers flooded the firm's social media accounts with demands that ...

Like all good satire, the mock headline comes perilously close to the truth. Modern Luddites do indeed invent “machines”—in the form of computer viruses, cyberworms and other malware—to ...

That’s where Merchant’s narrative, as a work of history, largely ends, moving on to the Luddites’ modern relevance. What happens to the Luddites in the interim is murky. Merchant argues that ...

Become a Luddite.” (He told me that he sees the modern labor movement as “really a Luddite movement.”) Both SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) took issue with studio executives ...

So can we draw any parallels? What parallels can we draw between the situation the Luddites were in and then the modern automation threatening jobs today? Merchant: The way that I would put it is ...

“The Luddites understood technology all too well ... calling him “the first modern mainstream presidential candidate to essentially forecast a second coming Luddism.” A few paragraphs ...

The term “Luddite” emerged in early 1800s England. At the time there was a thriving textile industry that depended on manual knitting frames and a skilled workforce to create cloth and ...

Like all good satire, the mock headline comes perilously close to the truth. Modern Luddites do indeed invent “machines”—in the form of computer viruses, cyberworms and other malware—to ...