From Ars Technica, today:
So can modern mobile warriors consider themselves descendants of this cause? If you are reading this essay on your laptop or iPhone, chances are that you aren’t an unemployed weaver staring starvation in the face. You may be intimidated or annoyed by Twitter, Facebook, or the latest mobile phone application, but that doesn’t make you a Luddite. The stocking artisans of early nineteenth century England had nothing in common with our daily anxieties about devices unimaginable in their time.