Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Luddite Frame-breaker wielding a hammer; Automated car building factory robots Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Wiki ...

Very few of us can be sure that our jobs will not, in the near future, be done by machines. We know about cars built by robots, cashpoints replacing bank tellers, ticket dispensers replacing train ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Luddites have a bad reputation. These days, the word is most commonly used as an insult—shorthand for somebody who doesn’t ...

A little more than two centuries ago in the English city of Nottingham, groups of cloth workers began destroying knitting frames and power looms. Manufacturers were using these machines to replace the ...

One of the few mildly entertaining things in the tedious Johnny Virtual Depp vehicle Transcendence was its portrayal of anti-technology terrorists. Rather than swapping smartphones for yoga and ...

By at least one definition of the word, “I live a very not-luddite life,” Hilton says, gesturing helplessly at open laptop, wireless earbuds, towering mic. “My work is tech-based. I can’t avoid it. I ...

Clichés abound in response to any new technology, but on the topic of large language models and generative artificial intelligence, bumper-sticker thinking has reached new lows (or perhaps been ...

This year, 2012, marks the 200 th anniversary of the Luddite uprising, when English textile workers smashed looms with hammers. Few words in the English language invoke such perjorative connotation as ...

The dictionary definition of “Luddite” broadly refers to “one who is opposed to especially technological change.” Although the dictionary also mentions that Luddites were a real 19th Century movement, ...

From the academic who warns of a robot uprising to the workers worried for their future – is it time we started paying attention to the tech sceptics? Eliezer Yudkowsky, a 44-year-old academic wearing ...