Two things are true about Luddites. The first is that they are often vindicated in their concern about dramatic technological change, a process that often flies under the name of “progress.”
The other is that they lose. No one can stop the future from arriving, any more than Xerxes’s men could punish the sea with whips and red-hot irons. “You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension,” as Nikola Tesla put it, and these you may also call progress.
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