Welcome to the new Tasmania - a haven for Luddites
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By Jack Cameron Stanton
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Black Inc., $32.99
The internet’s ubiquity has changed the world, permanently so. Only fiction can pretend it doesn’t exist. So where are the Luddites for the 21st century?
During the Industrial Revolution in Britain, the Luddites were oath-sworn, machine-destroying technophobes afraid that machines would take their job. In today’s world, often compared unfavourably to Orwell’s Ingsoc, has the Luddite opposition to technological progress stuck around? Or, as Thomas Pynchon predicted in his 1984 essay