Talk:Technophobia

message: In his book Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt remarks on page 38:
If the reader will consult such a book as italicized(Recent Economic Changes), by David A. Wells, published in 1889, he will find passages that, except for the dates and absolute amount involved, might have been written by our technophobes (if I may coin a needed word) of today.
The book was published by Harper & Brothers on July, 1946.
Sorry for my very limited knowledge of Wikipedia semantics. I do not edit, but I read this and thought I should post because the origin of terms can be very difficult to trace.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.196.41.95 (talk) 01:20, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of the Term "Technophobes"

message: I have just completed a "moderate" revision to this article. Does it seem better now?  Just asking.  Thank you.  User:ProfessorPaul 03:29, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Is the Article Better Now?

message: Can a person who despises technology due to its widely commercialised nature or its associations with consumerism be called a technophobe? Or a person who does not actually fear technology but just deems it to be superfluous?
--GatesPlusPlus 14:12, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Need some clarification

message: I'm not convinced that the Amish are technophobic.  They just reject it for reasons of religion. RJFJR 03:52, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amish 

message: The Technophobia in popular culture section seems longs to me. RJFJR 16:06, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: examples

message: You may want to consider Wikipedia:Peer review to attract more reviewers.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  01:40, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional review avenue 

message: This page is in the process of being updated as part of an academic group project. During this time a history section was added, the Technophobic groups section is being edited, and later the in the arts section will also be edited and expanded. Many of the quality standard issues are in the process of being addressed and any mistakes in the article references section will be corrected.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrm62 (talk • contribs) 22:25, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: With the exception of very, very few WikiProjects, which do review articles for B class, vast majority of articles are not reviewed for B (or lower) classes in any kind of a formal process. In other words, any editor may at any point review that article and comment on whether it deserves or does not a B status. What I'd suggest is that if you think that this article deserves a B status, you should contact one of the editors who commented on this page and ask them for such a review.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  21:12, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updates 

message: Amish/Mennonite "state that they are against"? Isn't it safe to say "Amish/Mennonites oppose"? As written, it suggests untruthfulness on their part, to me.  TREKphiler hit me ♠  22:30, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Usage

message: Just want to say thanks to those who decided it was best to delete entire paragraphs and blocks of texts without giving us a chance to find more acceptable sources.  Like someone said, we are trying to improve this article for a sociology class at our university.  It doesn't help when people just mass delete things.  The first day I was editing, I had to deal with DiscoSpinster deleting things I was writing before I even had a chance to change things.  It would be more helpful if you just left things alone, and tell us what we can do to improve it, rather than delete it altogether.    —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.235.20.63 (talk) 18:01, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Mass Deletion

message: I've taken the liberty of inserting three cites on behalf of your class:
# Quoted named cite: diff1
# Added quoted dic defs: diff2, which as different as the diff 'looks', didn't change any text whatever, so just the added cite. (Hmmm, may be worth a feature request change... )
# Second short form cite, diff3, (Ibid. form, named and used twice, but with quote and hidden supporting data) of the first cite transformed to acceptable format.
Some would argue against that, Ibid. perhaps, but in such a short para or in such close proximity, is a good example, imho, when to invoke (common sense)!
Note, most cites in wikipedia DO NOT use quotes, but having the information at hand when building the article is very useful... Getting rid of the quote and keeping it too is a snap... remember the XXX in <XXXref>... just rename to the "quote=" to "Xquote=", or as the additional data I included in the third cite "|data=" ... any undefined parameter in template is just the same as an in-line comment... it's discarded by the computer, but there for us people to read.
Good luck! Hope Piotr is a easy grader! // FrankB 17:13, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Examples

message: Just came across Glen Norcliffe's The Ride to Modernity (University of Toronto, 2001), which has some quite interesting comments on the causes or inspirations of modern society, which might be of use in explaining the reasons for technophobia. (If not, it might be worth reading in itself, for anybody interested in the subject...)  TREKphiler hit me ♠  16:59, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Causation

message: I want to thank all editors who have contributed to this article, either by editing it or by reviewing it and offering help on this talk page. While the article has fallen short of the Good Article criteria, it has been obviously significantly improved, moving from stub/start class to solid C or even B class. Compare: before, after, diffs.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  18:10, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  End of assignment: summary 

message: "In this way, the Old Order Mennonites are technophobic due to community conformities relating to the restricted use of technologies considered to be luxuries."  Since i'm far from convinced a religious faith is technophobic, & it's unsourced, I'm removing it.  TREKphiler hit me ♠  10:00, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Amishophobia?

message: I am Amish and while I know that this is a common misunderstanding of my religion, I am offended by its placement here. We Mennonites are Christians and are not at all afraid of technology. Can you tell me, would I be sitting here typing at a computer if such a thing were true?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.222.106.70 (talk) 21:06, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Falsehoods

message: I'm sorry, I can't help but think there should be an entire section on Battlestar Galactica, as an example within an example.
The original series, with the Cylons, an example, I think, of the real-world fear at the time of the growing spread of automation.
The modern remake series and spin-off Caprica not only are examples of technophobia in art, but exhibit technophobia as part of the backstory, with the Galactica purposely having archaic technology in fear of the newer, Cylon prone technology (mentioned the miniseries).
I'm kind of a new editor, so I thought I should put the suggestion here, so that a more experience writer can write, cite, and format.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.108.129.230 (talk) 02:30, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Example of Technophobia in the arts? 

message: Can someone please remove the sentence about Trump and Putin in this text and review this article generally? This is clearly not objective, scientific information and not relevant to the topic of the page. Thank you. 11:21, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trump and Putin 

message: Is there much of a difference between Technophobia and Cyberphobia? They seem exactly the same. Pacingpal (talk) 13:07, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Cyberphobia? 

message: Self-explanatory here, though should the Technophobia article include the mention of blockchain and NFT technologies? I bring it up due to a huge wave of backlash for these technologies being based on ideas stemming from technophobia (e.g., fear of change, technology take over, etc.). Mainly citing here Dan Olson's Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs video as an example of technophobia (e.g., his use of "techbros", fear of blockchain taking over, etc.). I would like to hear this community's feedback on this change proposal. 209.33.19.39 (talk) 00:08, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should the blockchain / Non-Fungible Token (NFT) technologies be mentioned within this article?