IngeHG posted a photo: Even a luddite likes shiny new gadgets View Large On Black 15/01/2010 15-365 SOOC, handheld, in the shade of the garden hut, my new phone on my agenda. I took this on a whim (seen so many pictures of

Today, find that rare Luddite home without a microwave, and you have to wonder how they make popcorn. 6. JVC HR-3300 videocassette recorder (1976). Say you had to attend a birthday party the night that Battle of the Network Stars was on. Legions of schoolchildren and small-business employees began learning the already popular VisiCalc spreadsheet along with a new operating system called DOS. Starting in 1983, on-the-go professionals opted for a Compaq, the first fully

Often, they've been shamed with labels like “luddite” into feeling that they are somehow missing out. I don't agree. Whether you use a paper system or an electronic one depends on what works best for you. on electronic gadgets (i.e., calendar & phone book) but use a notebook for my “to do” lists and other reminders. I also use a notebook to record what I've worked on with clients during each session. I love my gadgets but could not live w/o my paper based system.

Telstra have infact lost money by investing in Next G by having to break contracts with customers, and providing them with new phones, free of charge. The problem is that the very few of those left without coverage are making a hell of a lot And Luddite, yes you must be one. Telstra has regularly sent mailouts to its CDMA customers for about a year reminding them CDMA was to shutdown. And further, they also sent SMSes to CDMA phones reminding owners it was closing.

God yes, I mean, try any PC on me… If you had one tip to give about getting the best out of new technology, what would it be? Spend rather than save, and get the right piece of kit from the outset. Are you a luddite or a nerd?

Jaron Lanier is many things (I left out musician, among others), but he's not a Luddite. In fact, he has thought more deeply about issues of content, creativity, and humanism in the Internet age than just about any other writer on the subject. In this book, Lanier asserts that the Internet is moving creativity and content to a “hive mind” or “noosphere” that eschews individual authorship and, far from encouraging a new age of creativity, flattens creative endeavors