It’s just silly. Luddites have never had much power—and aren’t usually very war like.
Instead, we will see expanded environmental and green movements, more anti-GM activism—demands to tax the techno-rich more—and so on.
Degaris was just doing much the same thing that SIAI is doing now—making a song-and-dance about THE END OF THE WORLD—in order to attract attention to himself—and so attract funding—so he could afford to get on with building his machines.
It’s just silly. Luddites have never had much power—and aren’t usually very war like.
Instead, we will see expanded environmental and green movements, more anti-GM activism—demands to tax the techno-rich more—and so on.
Degaris was just doing much the same thing that SIAI is doing now—making a song-and-dance about THE END OF THE WORLD—in order to attract attention to himself—and so attract funding—so he could afford to get on with building his machines.