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Title: Rebels Against The Future Condition: New Subtitle: The Luddites And Their War On The Industrial Revolution: Lessons For The Computer Age ISBN-10: 0201407183 EAN: 9780201407181 ISBN: 9780201407181 Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc Format: Paperback Release Date: 17/04/1996 Description: Kirkpatrick Sale is at the tumultuous centre of a technology backlash, actively challenging Bill Gates on the one hand and the Unabomber on the other. The subject of bets, barbs, and grudging praise in the pages of WIRED, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The New Yorker, Rebels Against the Future takes us back to the first technology backlash, the short-lived and fierce Luddite rebellion of 1811. Sale tells the compelling story of the Luddites'struggle to preserve their jobs and way of life by destroying the machines that threatened to replace them he then invokes a new-Luddite spirit in response to today's technological revolution and calls for another sort of rebellion: not one of violence but rather of intellectually and ethically sound protest. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 153mm Item Width: 25mm Item Weight: 454g Author: Kirkpatrick Sale Genre: Business & Finance Topic: History, Science Nature & Math Release Year: 1996
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