Luddite

Example Sentences

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“I’ve lived most of my life as a futurist, and I don’t hate technology. I’m certainly no Luddite — but I’ve had a lot of the hope sucked out of me in the post-COVID years.”

From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026

The Luddite movement, which predated the Swing Riots, was led by textile workers convinced that power-operated looms would permanently impoverish the middle class.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

The Luddite Club, a nonprofit group that supports taking smartphone breaks, has 26 chapters, nearly all of them at high schools or colleges.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

My 25-year-old works in tech and I am referred to as the Luddite, but here are a few things I would love to see:

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2023

Here and there a Luddite holdout refuses to open an email account, just as thousands of years ago some human bands refused to take up farming and so escaped the luxury trap.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari