| Iain S Bruce mounts a spirited defence of the internet against the nouveau Luddites. |
| A breathless enthusiast for the wired world, he writes well enough to take happy Luddites such as me along with him. |
| In the early 19th-century, a large number of English mechanics banded together to begin a group known as the Luddites. |
| It is worth remembering that the original Luddites of the early 19th century were not uneducated blockheads who didn't understand machines. |
| True believers dismiss this significant part of the population as Luddites. |
| They are not Luddites or anti-developmentalist, and their sophisticated critiques rarely talk about monolithic neoliberal evils. |
