You've probably heard 'Luddite' used as an insult for someone technologically backwards. But according to NPR's Word of the Week, the actual history is far more interesting. The original Luddites weren't anti-technology at all — they were organized English workers in the eighteen hundreds protesting the mechanization of their industries and the loss of their livelihoods. The term has since become shorthand for technophobes, a far cry from what the movement actually represented.

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