Today is the 200th anniversary of the death of the poet George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824). Here is a poem he published anonymously in The Morning Chronicle, 2 March 1812, when only 24. The Frame-breaking Bill was introduced by the Continue Reading
Luddites
Who was the monster?
Review: Blood in the Machine. The origins of the rebellion against Big-Tech, by Brian Merchant, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2023. Brian Merchant demolishes the middle-class myth that the Luddites were stupid workers who didn’t understand the new technology. The historical truth is the Luddites didn’t hate the new machines as Continue Reading