“High tech has such a vast environmental and economic impact that society will no longer be able to cope” (Image: Joyce Dopkeen/New York Times/Redux/Eyevine)
Two hundred years ago, a group of desperate textile workers banded together in a doomed attempt to halt the industrial revolution. The Luddite spirit lives on in people like Kirkpatrick Sale. He tells Alison George why we are on a collision course with technology – and why he now uses a computer
Who exactly were the Luddites?
The Luddites were skilled textile workers who resisted the technology that was destroying their way of life in the…
