In an essay in 1984—at the dawn of the personal computer era—the novelist Thomas Pynchon wondered if it was “O.K. to be a Luddite,” meaning someone who opposes technological progress. A better ...

The dictionary definition of "Luddite" broadly refers to "one who is opposed to especially technological change." Although the dictionary also mentions that Luddites were a real 19th Century movement, ...

“The most Luddite person you can imagine” is how Anthony T. Grafton describes himself. But it’s in part thanks to Mr. Grafton, a professor of history at Princeton University, that the American ...

200 years after the Luddite rebellion that erupted in West Yorkshire and other parts of the country a crowed of around a hundred people gathered in the small Pennine village of Liversedge to unveil a ...

The old adage about history repeating itself has proven to be true time and time again. For those who have studied 19th century history you may remember that Luddite’s was a term used to describe ...

Iam a Luddite. I refuse to use an electric toothbrush or can opener. I threw away our plug-in teakettle. I only read actual books; I don’t listen to them on CD while I drive, and I can’t imagine ...

A friend of mine recently called me a Luddite. This was after I was telling him about how manually pulled cycle rickshaws are disappearing from Ranchi, the city I was born and brought up in. The cycle ...