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To: Scott Pease who wrote (18112)	3/20/1998 3:59:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (2) of 24154

>>>Off topic, but you should read LEGACY, by I think Greg Bear. Its a sci-fi book, but its funny you should mention the above -- there is a group of luddites who call themselves after "the great man who tried to save the world" -- Naderites. :)<<< Two points: - Much as some here dislike Nader, nobody has ever found anything but indirect innuendo to smear him with. Greg Bear, indeed. Now we're down to third string sci-fi as reference material! -The Luddites did in fact correctly predict the effect of the new machines being installed on their jobs (they lost their jobs to machines, something we take for granted now (ask any bank teller), but an idea that was new and shocking then. Few people who mention the Luddites actually know anything about them of course, in keeping with modern debate standards in general. They were involved in a labor action and wanted to stop the assembly line. They also didn't want to lose their jobs (homes, families.) They were a little more intelligent about predicting short-term job outcomes than some others. That's about it. But it was very important during the industrial revolution that other laborers and farmers who would also inevitably be displaced not get the message, and so the Luddites and anyone else like them were thoroughly smeared. One result of the outcomes of technology not being discussed honestly was Dickensian England. Cheers, Chaz

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