You can find Luddism anywhere on the political dial - here's Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, demonstrating his variation on the theme:

I don’t own an iPod. I would never wear an iPod… If this is your primary focus in life - the machines… it’s going to have a staggeringly negative effect, all of this, for America… did you ever talk to these computer geeks? I mean, can you carry on a conversation with them?

Never mind that you can download his radio show in podcast form :) Apparently, technology only serves to make us into uninformed trolls. The amusing thing is, his intellectual forbearers railed against the evils of radio and television.

This is of a piece with the astonishing admission from Larry King last week - that he's never been on the internet. Fossils come in all varieties, that's for sure.