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Welcome to the new Tasmania - a haven for Luddites
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By Jack Cameron Stanton
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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
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More from the ABC’s chief propagandist on the weekend, Stan Grant:
I have missed America.
I have missed that surge of anticipation and excitement getting off a long plane ride and walking through the terminal of LAX or JFK airport.
I have missed waiting in the immigration queue and hearing foreign languages all around me, the people of the world drawn to this place of dreams.
I have missed the immigration officer telling me to “have a nice day”; that familiar, comforting sound of the American accent, the backdrop of my childhood in front of a TV screen.
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