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- Anyone who advocates the revival of the anti-technology beliefs or practices of the w:Luddites|Luddites, sometimes used pejoratively.
#* 1970, Robert Theobald, The Economics of Abundance: A Non-inflationary Future, page 130
#*: One is a neo-Luddite revolt, aiming to destroy machines and machine systems [....]
#* 1995, Kirkpatrick Sale, Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution, page 254
#*: Last along the spectrum comes a diverse set of social critics, activists and intellectuals for the most part, who accept the neo-Luddite label without demur and are consciously working to adapt certain of the Luddite fundamentals to contemporary politics.
#* 2003, Christina Garsten and Helena Wulff, New Technologies at Work: People, Screens and Social Virtuality, page 172
#*: One such collection of thoughts is the neo-Luddite spectrum. Not yet an organized movement, the neo-Luddite approach contains multitudes of [....]
#* 2004, Peyton Paxson, Media Literacy: Thinking Critically about the Internet, page 17
#*: However, as the original Luddites did, a small number of people within the neo-Luddite movement have resorted to criminal activity.
#* 1985, Greg Bear, "Blood Music", in The Collected Stories of Greg Bear (2004), page 32
#*: "Neo-Luddite," I said to myself. A filthy accusation.
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