Rebels Against the Future: Lessons for the Computer Age; The Luddites and Their war on the Industiral Revolution
by Kirkpatrick Sale

'Rebels against the Future' tells the story of a bold uprising by the earliest victims of the first Industrial Revolution, viewed from the perspective of today's second Industrial Revolution, a vivid reminder that the current turmoil, driven by rapidly developing technologies and the global economy, is every bit as disruptive as the one created by the steam engine and laissez-faire. This resistance to technology was so dramatic that the name of these people has entered our vernacular.'Luddite' today refers to anyone unmoved by laptop computers and cellular phones, but his book reminds us that the Luddites were in fact real people, English working men who saw their livelihoods and homes, their communities and countryside, destroyed by the onrush of industrial capitalism.