Rebels against the Future: the Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution Lessons for the Computer Age
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Rebels against the Future: the Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution Lessons for the Computer Age by Kirkpatrick Sale
Kirkpatrick Sale is at the tumultuous center of a technology backlash, actively challenging Bill Gates on the one hand and the Unabomber on the other. The subject of bets, barbs, and grudging praise in the pages of WIRED, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The New Yorker, Rebels Against the Future takes us back to the first technology backlash, the short-lived and fierce Luddite rebellion of 1811. Sale tells the compelling story of the Luddites' struggle to preserve their jobs and way of life by destroying the machines that threatened to replace them; he then invokes a new-Luddite spirit in response to today's technological revolution and calls for another sort of rebellion: not one of violence but rather of intellectually and ethically sound protest.Kirkpatrick Sale is a prolific scholar and author of more than a dozen books--including Human Scale, Rebels Against the Future, and After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination. He has been described as the leader of the Neo-Luddites, is one of the pioneers of the bioregional movement, and throughout his career has been a regular contributor to The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, CounterPunch, Lew Rockwell, The New York Review of Books, and The Utne Reader, which named him one of 100 living visionaries. Sale is currently the director of the political think tank the Middlebury Institute for the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780201626780 |
| ISBN 10 | 0201626780 |
| Title | Rebels against the Future: the Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution Lessons for the Computer Age |
| Author | Kirkpatrick Sale |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Pearson Education Limited |
| Year published | 1995-06-21 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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