keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) (11/09/84)
> ... But seriously folks, are there a lot of people out there that >are machigynists? (I really couldn't think of a word for machine haters...) >Ken Hollis I think the word is 'technophobe', and from time to time I hear rumors about people who are anti-this-or-that including anti-progress. We could always provide a protected piece of land somewhere where they could all go and live like cave men (O Brave New World!) or maybe if we ignore them the'll go away. Kind of an amusing diversion though, to hear about these 'fringies' periodically. ( as long as they don't start passing laws ) Keith Doyle {ucbvax,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd
bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (11/13/84)
> Article <281@cadovax.UUCP>, from keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) +---------------- | | > ... But seriously folks, are there a lot of people out there that | >are machigynists? (I really couldn't think of a word for machine haters...) | | >Ken Hollis | | I think the word is 'technophobe', and from time to time I hear rumors about | people who are anti-this-or-that including anti-progress. We could always | provide a protected piece of land somewhere where they could all go and | live like cave men (O Brave New World!) or maybe if we ignore them the'll | go away. Kind of an amusing diversion though, to hear about these 'fringies' | periodically. ( as long as they don't start passing laws ) | | Keith Doyle | {ucbvax,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd "Laws"? Remember why they used mentats in DUNE? I agree that calculators and such should be reserved for the problems for which hand-calculation is impractical (and do so myself); but let's not go too far. --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ North Coast Xenix | the.world!ucbvax!decvax!cwruecmp! 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio | {atvax!}ncoast!{tdi1!}bsa (216) 524-1416 \ 44131 | E1439@CSUOHIO.BITNET (friend's acct.) ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- `Confusion is my natural state.'
hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) (11/13/84)
<smash them filthy mechanical looms before they takes all our jobs away!> | >... But seriously folks, are there a lot of people out there that are | >machigynists? (I really couldn't think of a word for machine haters...) | | >Ken Hollis | | I think the word is 'technophobe', and from time to time I hear rumors | about people who are anti-this-or-that including anti-progress. We | could always provide a protected piece of land somewhere where they | could all go and live like cave men (O Brave New World!) or maybe if we | ignore them the'll go away. Kind of an amusing diversion though, to | hear about these 'fringies' periodically. ( as long as they don't start | passing laws ) | | Keith Doyle | {ucbvax,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd There is a word for these folks: Luddites. The name comes from the fundamentalist rabble-rouser preacher who provoked his parishioners into rioting and smashing the new card-driven automatic looms which Hollerith had developed. Happened in England at the start of the industrial revolution. Look it up in a good history book. Incidentally, the Luddites were soundly chastised by the Church of England. Had to mention that just in case someone gets the notion that religion is anti-science. Hutch
eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (11/14/84)
> > > ... But seriously folks, are there a lot of people out there that > >are machigynists? (I really couldn't think of a word for machine haters...) > > >Ken Hollis > > I think the word is 'technophobe', and from time to time I hear rumors about > people who are anti-this-or-that including anti-progress. We could always > provide a protected piece of land somewhere where they could all go and > live like cave men (O Brave New World!) or maybe if we ignore them the'll > go away. Kind of an amusing diversion though, to hear about these 'fringies' > periodically. ( as long as they don't start passing laws ) > > Keith Doyle > {ucbvax,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd As a matter of fact, a friend began a subscription to what he thought was a magazine on word processing and it turned out to be an anti-word-processing publication. This publication gave ten hints for destroying keyboards, using magnets in discrete ways to destroy data. I estimate their numbers in the thousands based on their references to a profile of their membership. [It's interesting to note that their magazine was probably word processed.] Let's not get out of touch with some of the people who `fear' those of us in the `technological elite.' --eugene miya NASA Ames Res. Ctr. {hplabs,ihnp4,dual,hao,vortex}!ames!aurora!eugene emiya@ames-vmsb.ARPA