November 1997
Look Out for the Luddite Label
Tagging thoughtful skeptics as anti-technology effectively excludes them from policy debates.
By Langdon Winner
I'm no Luddite, but...." we often hear people give this apology as they begin even the most tepid criticism about some technology or another. Evidently, it's important to let everybody know that you still affirm the overall beneficence of technological progress. How astonishing, then, to read in the Wall Street Journal and other recent press reports that a movement of "Neo-Luddites" is taking shape in the United States.
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