....Luddites

Extreme advocacies in technology can be traced back to the Luddites, organized 
bands of of English rioters that were dedicated to destroying textile machines
to intimidate employers in Nottingham in 1811.  They were concerned with 
displacement of workers by machines, concomitant lower wages, and reduced 
quality of products.  Luddites are associated with computer problems today
because the machines of their era included looms that used punch card control
mechanisms, precursors of computers.

"Fighting Computer Crime" by Parker, Donn B. (C) 1983 by Donn B. Parker
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.  p. 125.
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Donn P. Parker is Senior Management Systems Consultant and reasearcher 
computer crime and security at SRI International in Menlo Park, California,
for clients worldwide.  The author of "Crime by Computer" and two 
professional books on computer security, he gives about fifty lectures
a year on computer crime and security.
