Comments on: TTW Guest Post: Love thy Luddite

By: david

david — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:59:50 +0000

I refer to myself as a Luddite, in both a joking and prideful manner. As with many older(58) folks, I’ve fallen behind in trying to keep up with the new technology and often find myself embarrassed by what I don’t know. Tech can be both very useful and very aggravating and intrusive. The constant chatter from cell phones, e-mail, facebook, etc. leaves little time to contemplate much of anything – only to respond to the characters displayed on the monitor or cell phone screen.
So, it’s pretty much a combination of the fear of the unknown, ignorance of the technology, and the intrusion on a contemplative mindset that creates the Luddite’s aversion to (some) of the new tech. And that’s from a self-proclaimed Luddite.
“A kind word turneth away wrath.”

By: saç ekimi

saç ekimi — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:37:25 +0000

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By: ibrahim saraçoglu

ibrahim saraçoglu — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:13:37 +0000

ty for the usefull article

By: ahmet maranki

ahmet maranki — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:22:33 +0000

I think that the most important element, which ties in with everything you’ve said, is empathy. If they don’t see things your way, then chances are that you don’t see things exactly their way either.

By: Dejavu

Dejavu — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:50:41 +0000

Thank you for the usefull article.

By: Melek Tezcan

Melek Tezcan — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:23:35 +0000

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By: lazer epilasyon

lazer epilasyon — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:29:40 +0000

I think that apple is going to loose a lot of the female market–the ones who don’t really care about tech

By: saç ekimi

saç ekimi — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:33:27 +0000

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Should we looking beyond technolust? | Great Education & Information — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:31:15 +0000

[...] recognize that Luddite is a derogatory term, but I do not know that I would be embarrassed to read love thy Luddite by Mick Jacobsen (who mentions that “it is probably preferable to not call a Luddite [...]

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:33:45 +0000

Well, personally I do not like the term Luddite, as it seems to confer somethng more darker. However it is a far better descriptive term than "incompetent" or "resistant". More Useful Beneficial Computer Information

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Looking beyond the technolust | Teaching — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:37:01 +0000

[...] that Luddite is a pejorative term, though I don’t know that I would have bothered reading Love thy Luddite by Mick Jacobsen (who mentions that “it is probably better not call anybody a Luddite” [...]

By: Mick Jacobsen

Mick Jacobsen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:14:23 +0000

Aw shucks Leah. I see you got your b-friend on twitter… What I really appreciate is that your loved ones will really tell you what they think. That is what the concept of this post originally was, the importance of the honest, pragmatic Luddite in life + work.

By: leah

leah — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:07:44 +0000

I <3 this post! Not just for librarians but for relationships! I’m slowly converting my loved ones to iGoogle, twitter, even slowly convinced my mother to start using IM. It’s so fun.

By: pixelwiki

pixelwiki — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:04:56 +0000

I asked a couple of staff here what a “luddite” was. We had to Google it. (neat, we rely on Google instead of running for the dictionary) Anyway, maybe the question is why do we so badly want to convert people?

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Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:00:10 +0000

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