首先是 artisan. art 我懂，加了三就不懂了。另外一个是 Luddites. 这个也不太明白了。
而这段历史却讲明白了。
In 1811, an angry group broke into a factory in the town of Nottingham in the UK. They started smashing machinery and equipment and destroyed much of the factory before fleeing. These men had been angry and upset for some time. They had issued manifestos and sent threatening letters, but on this day, they took the even more radical step of destroying the machines in this factory. Why were they so upset?
Well, to sum it up in a word: automation.
These men were skilled artisans. They were weavers and textile workers who had dedicated their lives to the craft of making clothes, and they did not like the new machines that were able to make cloth much more quickly and cheaply than they ever could. They claimed to be following the orders of a man named Ned Ludd and called themselves Luddites. This term has entered our modern vocabulary as a description of those who dislike new technology, but the origin of it goes back to the protest movement in which artisans were afraid of losing their jobs to automation.
