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What Would the Luddites Make of Digital Opportunity?
The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society has published a piece asking what the Luddites — the 19th-century English textile workers who famously smashed machinery — would make of today's debates over digital access and opportunity. The article uses the historical movement as a lens on modern technology resistance and broadband policy. Broader reaction is not yet visible.
Why now: Ongoing debates about technology adoption and digital equity invite historical comparisons to the Luddites.
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- What Would the Luddites Make of Digital Opportunity? · Benton Institute for Broadband & Society
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