Luddite Sentiment

Neo- Luddite sentiment is arising not from people who are out of jobs because of computers but from over-educated academic or author types

Sale argues that since life time pay is no longer being offered to the workers in return for having their jobs automated. Also , He mentions the fact that 6 million people lost their job due to automation in 1995. However, these days 100 hundred of 100 million jobs created in US for example have come from automation ( i.e. computers ) .

Also, Sale believes that technological progress is entirely inhuman. other than that , he states " nothing is superior to handicrafts " . in reality , this is not true . In my opinion , he should look outside of the box and see what technology have brought us.

Today, handicrafts can not provide enough supply for this growing population. Today , mass production plays a significant role in society as population has an increasing trend ( from 2.5 billion in 1960 to 6.775 in 2011 according to World Bank ); Therefore, mass production is needed to meet human's basic needs.

at some point of interview kelly states "Do you see civilization as a catasrophe?" and in response sale says " Yes". In fact sale does not see exactly what technology has brought us . Of course , anything in the world has a price and we need to pay this price in order to achieve it. Yes, I agree with the fact that today we are destroying natural environment around us in order to get energy . However, in the other hand there are many recycling techniques that help us to retrieve what has been gone from nature and save it for the next generation

He says that the printing technology increased the number of books, buy at the same time "it vastly reduced forests in Europe so as to produce them" (246). Kelly disagrees adamantly and makes a point that the forests in Europe were not cut down. I strongly agree with Kelly on the statement when he says that printing increased literacy and allowed for better communication. Sale believes that literacy and mass production of books destroys oral traditions. Oral traditions is the means by which people used to pass on stories from one generation to the next by word of mouth (no written form). To me it seems as though Sale would prefer to be living in the Dark Ages with no electricity, no books, and no telephones. He is living in his own personal dream world and trying to recruit people to agree with him. In my opinion, it will not be as easy as he thinks. .