A Luddite
A Luddite. What's a Luddite. I just ran across that word in a newspaper
article that was talking about technology. And I gather this word may
have something to do with technology and the industrial revolution
maybe. And what's that industrial revolution all about anyway, is that
when people protested the invention of the machine to replace human
beings or something. And this is a historical word to me, someone who
may be stuck in the stone age of the year 1400 and has not yet advanced
to the twentieth century of superman and the Jetsons space age. And
what was life before the invention of all of these high tech devices
that surround humanity at the moment. What was life like before the
invention of computers, the internet, social media, web 2.0, e mail,
fax machines, cell phones, answering machine, compact disc, dvd's, 8
track tapes, web cams, information overload, satellites, jets,
airplanes, trains, television, radio, guns, firearms, telephones,
caller i.d., call waiting, the upc bar code, scanner technology
everything, you're on candid camera everywhere you go on planet earth
surveillance spy devices, gps global positioning system tracking
devices, social security numbers, blackberry crackberries, laptops and
a lot of other machinery and devices that passes me now. And has
humanity become mechanical desensitized robots and slaves to the
machine and the computer with the invention of these devices. What was
life like to sit around the fire for conversation. Was life before the
invention of technology and high tech devices a more simpler time. And
what does that word Luddite mean again, does that internet bible
dictionary Wikipedia have an entry for that? Luddite, that sounds like
an historical, antique stone age word to me. Technology has changed the
world.




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