Meanings
- uncountableThe beliefs and attitudes of neo-Luddites.
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Past neo-Luddite movements have, it should be noted, come and gone. In the 1990s, activist writers such as Kirkpatrick Sale called for a neo-Luddism that rejected the computer age altogether, arguing that “a world dominated by the technologies of industrial society is fundamentally more detrimental than beneficial to human happiness and survival.”
2024 February 2, Brian Merchant, “The New Luddites Aren’t Backing Down”, in The Atlantic
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neo-Luddism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neo-Luddism
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