Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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As with so much of my work these days, the column opens with a reference to the #Luddites, and to @brianmerchant's superb, forthcoming history of the Luddite uprisings, "Blood in the Machine":
https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/
As Merchant explains, the Luddites were anything but technophobes: they were skilled high-tech workers whose seven-year apprenticeships were the equivalent to getting a Master's in Engineering from MIT.
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