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  Rebels against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution - Lessons for the Computer Age (Paperback) By (author) Kirkpatrick Sale

  

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  Short Description for Rebels against the FutureThe first technology backlash was in 1811, when the Luddites fought to preserve their jobs by wrecking the machines that were to replace them. Their story inspires a new Luddite spirit in response to 20th-century technological advances, calling for an intellectually and ethically sound protest.
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  • Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
  • Published: 27 March 1996
  • Format: Paperback 336 pages
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  • Categories: Economic History | Impact Of Science & Technology On Society | British & Irish History | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 | Social & Cultural History
  • ISBN 13: 9780201407181 ISBN 10: 0201407183
  • Sales rank: 797,505

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• Kirkpatrick Sale is at the tumultuous center of a technology backlash, actively challenging Bill Gates on the one hand and the Unabomber on the other. The subject of bets, barbs, and grudging praise in the pages of WIRED, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The New Yorker, Rebels Against the Future takes us back to the first technology backlash, the short-lived and fierce Luddite rebellion of 1811. Sale tells the compelling story of the Luddites struggle to preserve their jobs and way of life by destroying the machines that threatened to replace them; he then invokes a new-Luddite spirit in response to todays technological revolution and calls for another sort of rebellion: not one of violence but rather of intellectually and ethically sound protest.