Luddite
Etymology
From “Ned Ludd,” a possibly apocryphal weaver said to have broken knitting frames; the rebelling workers styled themselves followers of “General Ludd.” Crucially, the original Luddites were not anti-technology in principle — they were skilled workers protesting how machines were being deployed to slash wages and jobs. The modern sense of “clueless technophobe” distorts that history.
noun · /LUH-dyte/
A person who opposes new technology — or, historically, one of the English workers who smashed textile machinery in the 1810s.
What it names
The technology skeptic, but its true history offers a sharper handle: the worker who resists not machines as such but how they are used against people.
Example
Refusing to blame the tools, she argued the real Luddite cause was fair pay, not fear of progress.
Related idea
It relates to creative destruction, the churn in which new technology wipes out old livelihoods — the Luddites lived that human cost long before economists gave it a tidy name.