Kirkpatrick Sale Rebels Against The Future (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Rebels Against The FutureCondition: NewSubtitle: The Luddites And Their War On The Industrial Revolution: Lessons For The Computer AgeISBN-10: 0201407183EAN: 9780201407181ISBN: 9780201407181Publisher: Da Capo Press IncFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 17/04/1996Description: 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: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 153mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 454gAuthor: Kirkpatrick SaleGenre: HistoryTopic: Science Nature & Math, Business & FinanceRelease Year: 1996 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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