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saras

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23. "Luddite" is a stupid smear term, not an intellectual concept.

Sun Mar 11, 2012, 05:17 PM

Mar 2012

Technology does not, in the majority of cases, automatically equal progress, just profit.

If it doesn't make it easier to do the things YOU value it's not progress. Being interrupted is NOT progress to me, so I don't enable inventions that allow it - including screening phone calls, never mind carrying a cell phone all the time.

Social networking, as a whole, has not made my life or my country better, so I don't regard it as progress, just change.

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My friend called me a Neo-Luddite [View all] Cyrano Mar 2012 OP

I didn't realize I had a twin!! niyad Mar 2012 #1

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That makes me one too Cirque du So-What Mar 2012 #3

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Okay. Perhaps you can answer this question. Can entropy be reversed? Cyrano Mar 2012 #18

I'll give you an answer in a few thousand millenia, as soon as.... lastlib Mar 2012 #20

Welcome to DU fellow Asimov fan. Cyrano Mar 2012 #21

Actually my favorite sci-fi dude is Arthur C. Clarke.... lastlib Mar 2012 #25

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No it was definitely an Asimov story lastlib Mar 2012 #48

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Here you go Cyrano Mar 2012 #41

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Yeah, it took me a few beats. I edited the post, but it was too late. Again, good one. Cyrano Mar 2012 #45

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I guess he doesn't understand WHY you are (to his view) annabanana Mar 2012 #4

My friend just doesn't understand those of us who march to the beat of a different flute. Cyrano Mar 2012 #14

Like you I don't have anything against those things. I don't do Facebook or Twitter but I do text, Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2012 #5

I still have a flip-phone. Odin2005 Mar 2012 #6

I Love my flip phone. Populist_Prole Mar 2012 #11

"rectangular tumor" LOL, true dat! Odin2005 Mar 2012 #38

You could lukkadairish Mar 2012 #7

Add me to the list. I honestly don't see what the big deal is Populist_Prole Mar 2012 #8

No, if you're happy. elleng Mar 2012 #9

I hate that term hfojvt Mar 2012 #10

DU feels like a social networking site to me. OK, maybe an old-school social networking site. phasma ex machina Mar 2012 #12

Is that them new lightweight suitcases? Swede Mar 2012 #13

01111001 01000101 01110011 Cyrano Mar 2012 #16

01101100 01101111 01101100 zbdent Mar 2012 #31

Back at ya with another l o l. Cyrano Mar 2012 #34

I'm just a Luddite. hunter Mar 2012 #15

I do facebook and twitter Worried senior Mar 2012 #19

had an acquaintence tell me that some issue at his work was the "Luddite" in him ... zbdent Mar 2012 #22

I can relate. I spent many years in the software industry as a tech writer. Cyrano Mar 2012 #28

"Luddite" is a stupid smear term, not an intellectual concept. saras Mar 2012 #23

If you're in the wrong century, so am I. Vinca Mar 2012 #24

I do FB but don't own a cell phone (nt) The Straight Story Mar 2012 #26

And I thought I was the last of the dinosaurs.... lastlib Mar 2012 #49

I'm sure that everyone who has any of those things deserves to. left on green only Mar 2012 #27

Do you have a spinning wheel sitting next to your computer? Warpy Mar 2012 #29

No spinning wheel, but I do have an old IBM AT in the closet collecting dust and rust. Cyrano Mar 2012 #35

I am a very slow adopter of new technologies, and reject some outright. kestrel91316 Mar 2012 #30

Interesting. I am somewhat similiar ... spin Mar 2012 #32

Sounds like you're really enjoying your Kindle and you've almost convinced me to Cyrano Mar 2012 #36

To each his own, but yes I am enjoying my Kindles. (n/t) spin Mar 2012 #44

Given Kindle's staggering privacy issues, I wouldn't use one if they paid me. snagglepuss Mar 2012 #53

Are you not troubled that everything you do on Kindle is stored and can be snagglepuss Mar 2012 #52

Join the crowd. I'm a geek from way back. I don't text. I use Firefox 3.6.18. Don't DWY. HopeHoops Mar 2012 #33

Your friend is wrong. edhopper Mar 2012 #37

I don't do FB or Twitter. I still have B Calm Mar 2012 #42

Your description of your activities sounds pretty much like me customerserviceguy Mar 2012 #50

I am of your world! Sort of. Honeycombe8 Mar 2012 #51

Not at all Spider Jerusalem Mar 2012 #54

Give the Kindle a try. Only $79, and you can return it if you don't like it. (nt) Nye Bevan Mar 2012 #56

hah! Dorian Gray Mar 2012 #57

I haven't seen the point of doing all that stuff for myself lunatica Mar 2012 #58