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Net Neutrality Wins the Day
Luddites of 17th Century England fought the government to retain a hold on their livelihood and standards of living. The government's recent decision to [...]
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Entropy
Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution once was considered shocking. To suggest that humankind descended from apes was considered blasphemous. Oddly we now [...]
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Luddite Film of the Century?
Amidst all the rapid and radical change from carbon paper, leaded gasoline, transistor radios, black and white television, rotary dial phones, and [...]
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Silicon Valley and Amorality
Within recent memory, people respected those who achieved success through hard work. Similarly, not so long ago, cool was how we described those who could [...]
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Fugunka Films on Luddite Online
The contemporary world may be described as the era of “isms.” Capitalism, communism, fascism, nationalism, idealism, nihilism, atheism, totalitarianism, [...]
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Is there anybody out there?
Once upon a time not very long ago, in a place not very far from where you are standing right now, the world was a vast place full of wonder, mystery, [...]
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Pessimism
Pessimism is unnatural. I was recently discussing business opportunities with a local colleague who also owns and operates a small business.
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Revisionist History and Cultural Cleansing
Finger-pointing and "The Blame Game" are the status quo, to some degree: determining guilt is often no easy task and is the reason every nation has its [...]
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Deus Ex Machina: Literally!
Deus ex machina is a Latin phrase meaning "God from the machine," and has until recently been used almost exclusively to discuss literature.
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Counter-intelligence, Hackers, etc.
The White House says Russia is behind a cyber-attack that breached the White House computer system. Edward Snowden is in Russia because he says the White [...]
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Really….That’s not funny anymore…
What is so sad about the abuse of technology is not only how people have been dehumanized and reduced to button-pushing, pill-swallowing, automatons [...]
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Devo!
Although there is a debate, it is fairly one-sided. There is no debate that the unasked for, unregulated, unsupervised, uncontrolled, and incomprehensibly [...]
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