It's been a while since I even heard the word Luddite. I've just quickly looked them up and ironically the movement started in Nottingham, where I'm from. I'd never even heard about the movement before and our school was usually pretty good at talking to us about local history as well. Classes visited Arkwright's Mills on excursions, although they're actually in Cromford, Derbyshire.

When we look at things on the scale of hundreds or thousands of years, I feel like a digital world will probably not be around forever, which is kind of comforting. It's probably here to stay for the rest of my life, though. I was wondering just today how long technology would take to break down and disappear, which in turn makes me wonder if we've been here before, some thousands of years ago.

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