If a neo-luddite is walking alone in a forest and gets lost, is it OK to use a compass to find his way home?
If a neo-luddite is walking alone in a forest and gets lost, is it OK to use his phone's GPS to find his way home?
If a luddite is walking alone in a forest and gets lost, is it OK to use a compass to find his way home?
If a neo-luddite and a luddite are walking together in a forest and they come to a fork in the road, will anyone care?
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"'Neo-Luddite,' I said to myself. A filthy accusation."
1985, Greg Bear, "Blood Music", in The Collected Stories of Greg Bear (2004), page 32.
Wikipedia: neo-Luddite (plural neo-Luddites)
- (sometimes pejorative) One who opposes technology, in the fashion of the Luddites.
- One who opposes to scientific or technological progress; frequently pejorative. [quotations ▲]
I like disagreeing with people who call themselves Luddites. "No, you're Amish, is what you mean," I tell them.
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