Definitions
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- adjective sometimes pejorative Being opposed to technology, in the fashion of the Luddites.
- noun sometimes pejorative One who opposes technology, in the fashion of the Luddites.
- noun One who opposes to scientific or technological progress; frequently pejorative.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It also includes a section lifted from Theodore Kaczynski, the American "Unabomber" who fancied himself a neo-Luddite anarchist.
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An intelligent novel about a nanotechnology-driven disaster needed to be written, after the neo-Luddite nonsense that was Prey.
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An intelligent novel about a nanotechnology-driven disaster needed to be written, after the neo-Luddite nonsense that was Prey.
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An intelligent novel about a nanotechnology-driven disaster needed to be written, after the neo-Luddite nonsense that was Prey.
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Ted Kaczynski: Was a Berkeley math professor who went crazy and became some kind of neo-Luddite.
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What no science fiction writer anticipated was the rise of a 'Back-to-Nature' neo-Luddite mood in the Western populace, which dismissed space travel as an expensive luxury, not to be indulged while poverty and social problems remained unsolved back earthside.
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration? 2008
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Since most communication is electronic these days, and this will become even more the case, effectively this ruling says that due to judge-created doctrine from before the Internet existed the Fourth Amendment is effectively a nullity unless you are a neo-Luddite who refuses to use the Internet.
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I know I could look it up, but I'm so neo-Luddite...
And in geek news ... CC 2009
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Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, a Ph.D. with kindred neo-Luddite views, was one such activist run amok, responsible for dozens of injuries and four deaths.
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Call me a self-righteous neo-Luddite, but I refuse to succumb to a mechanical universe.
Time out! doyle 2009
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