Flippy the robot will not steal your job

It is debatable whether Ned Ludd ever existed. But the movement he gave his name to certainly did. In the early 19th century, Luddite mobs of English weavers took to smashing the new automated looms they blamed for threatening their livelihoods. Today, Luddite fears are seeing a resurgence. Admittedly, no one is yet torching factories full of industrial robots or taking their baseball bats to banks of computers running "artificial intelligence" deep learning algorithms.