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From: jsnyder@june.cs.washington.edu (John R. Snyder)
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Subject: Re: Luddites
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As I am generally too busy/lazy to look up articles in history or sociology
journals, I would appreciate further postings on recent "Luddite scholarship".

We should probably observe a moratorium on use of the term "Luddite" until
we know what we're referring to.  The most absurd use of the term I've ever
witnessed was the work of former U.S. Secretary of the Navy John Lehman.
Lehman appeared in a panel discussion sponsored by Symbolics Corp. at the
recent American Assoc. for Artificial Intelligence conference in Seattle.
There Lehman characterized any opposition to Star Wars "research" as
Luddite, drawing into this enormous net fellow panelists James Schlesinger
and Marvin Minsky (!), not to mention a majority of the large audience
made up almost entirely of AI researchers and engineers.  I wonder what
Ned Ludd would have thought of that!

John R. Snyder