"Someone say Crack Berry?"
Luddites have always been around and always will be.
"Someone say Crack Berry?"
Especially in the media, where most reporters have degrees in English, Journalism or other soft skills. Since the demise of the required core curriculum 30 years ago, most college grads function on about the level of 1940-50 high school grads. Basically, a BA or BS in liberal arts is what a high school diploma used to be.
Except, in the maths and sciences, it's not even that. It's quite possible to have a BA from an Ivy League school without having had more than a grade school science education, or math beyond jr. high algebra.
These reporters can't understand science and technology, so their opinions are formed from popular entertainments (mostly made by college dropouts), where all technology is threatening and all scientists are megalomaniacs bent on world domination (if not nihilists bent on planetary annihilation).
While blogs and sites like FR have gone a long way to expose the degree of ignorance, bias, and outright fakery in political and international news, they're still getting away with these hatchet jobs on technology.
The world is a better, safer, healthier, more prosperous and in many ways freer place, all things considered, than it was when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s. Only the music has deteriorated. But you'll never learn any of those things from the papers or networks. They are pimping misery, andthey are doing it because they are lazy and ignorant.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F