Luddism 2.0, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web

Andrés GuadamuzSCRIPT Centre for Research in IP and Technology Law

University of Edinburgh

Luddism 1.0

Luddism 1.0

Luddism 1.0

Unsupported statement #1

Luddism 2.0

“There’s a set of rules that anything that was in the world when you were born is normal and natural. Anything invented between when you were 15 and 35 is new and revolutionary and exciting, and you’ll probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re 35 is against the natural order of things.”

Usual suspects

“For the net we work on, the digital connections our government seeks to

spread as a universal right, the keyboards in our homes, are blights as well as boons.

We won’t automatically be ­better with no books to finger and caress. We aren’t

better for grisly YouTube grimaces from Downing Street, or Obama twittering

away when he could be thinking. Before there were computer disks to steal from

the fees office, there was ­privacy, secrecy and supposed decency undisturbed.”

“Of course, we do not know whether the current increase in autism is due

more to increased awareness and diagnosis of autism, or whether it

can - if there is a true increase - be in any way linked to an increased

prevalence among people of spending time in screen relationships. Surely it

is a point worth considering”

Unsupported statement #2

Dystopian futureMinimal public funds for researchNo broadband investmentDraconian IP legislationSurveillance society Real cybercrime ignored...

Is it over yet?