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They were textile workers in England early in the Industrial Revolution who worked in a pre-industrial manner and broke industrial textile machinery because, primarily, they thought it destroyed their ability to "make a living." The term has also been used more loosely to refer to anyone who opposes new technology; for exmample people who oppose computer technology are characterised as "Luddites" or "neo-Luddites". Chevalier Daniel C. Boyer
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