Editing Technology (section)

===Anti-technology backlash===
{{See also|Luddite|Neo-Luddism|Bioconservatism}}
Technology's central role in our lives has drawn concerns and backlash. The backlash against technology is not a uniform movement and encompasses many heterogeneous ideologies.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Steven E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VPBZANKoOHkC |title=Against Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism |year=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1135522391 |access-date=11 September 2022 |archive-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004185317/https://books.google.com/books?id=VPBZANKoOHkC |url-status=live }}</ref>

The earliest known revolt against technology was [[Luddism]], a pushback against early automation in textile production. Automation had resulted in a need for fewer workers, a process known as [[technological unemployment]].

Between the 1970s and 1990s, American terrorist [[Ted Kaczynski]] carried out a series of bombings across America and published the ''[[Industrial Society and Its Future|Unabomber Manifesto]]'' denouncing technology's negative impacts on nature and human freedom. The essay resonated with a large part of the American public.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kelman |first=David |date=1 June 2020 |title=Politics in a Small Room: Subterranean Babel in Piglia's El camino de Ida |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/ycl.63.005 |journal=The Yearbook of Comparative Literature |volume=63 |pages=179–201 |doi=10.3138/ycl.63.005 |s2cid=220494877 |issn=0084-3695 |access-date=11 September 2022 |archive-date=6 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306190259/https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/ycl.63.005 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref> It was partly inspired by Jacques Ellul's ''[[The Technological Society]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fleming |first1=Sean |date=7 May 2021 |title=The Unabomber and the origins of anti-tech radicalism |journal=Journal of Political Ideologies |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=207–225 |doi=10.1080/13569317.2021.1921940 |issn=1356-9317 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

Some subcultures, like the [[off-the-grid]] movement, advocate a withdrawal from technology and a return to nature. The [[ecovillage]] movement seeks to reestablish harmony between technology and nature.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Vannini|first1=Phillip|author2=Jonathan Taggart|title=Voluntary simplicity, involuntary complexities, and the pull of remove: The radical ruralities of off-grid lifestyles|journal=Environment and Planning A|volume=45|number=2|year=2013|pages=295–311|doi=10.1068/a4564 |bibcode=2013EnPlA..45..295V |s2cid=143970611 }}</ref>