“Do you know what a Luddite is? That’s a person who doesn’t like newfangled contraptions. Contraptions like nuclear submarines armed with Poseidon missiles that have H-bombs in their warheads, and like computers that cheat you out of becoming. Bill Gates says, “Wait till you can see what your computer can become.” But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work—not the damn fool computer.”
- Kurt Vonnegut
I agree with this statement because technology is something that does stuff for you. I do agree that it is helpful and gets work done faster and neater. But, I prefer to hand write everything. And if you think about back in the day when people did not have or even know about computers and they were fine. So, if we did not know about technology, life would be different. And when you say, "I wrote this paper for my Humanities class," technically, you didn't; the computer. It was just your ideas and you pushing the keys, but the computer is the object making it all work. I would not consider myself a Luddite, because computers are helpful, but I say that we could do without them.
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