It's just silly. Luddites have never had much power - and aren't usually very war like.

Instead, we will see expanded environmental and green movements, more anti-GM activism - demands to tax the techno-rich more - and so on.

Degaris was just doing much the same thing that SIAI is doing now - making a song-and-dance about THE END OF THE WORLD - in order to attract attention to himself - and so attract funding - so he could afford to get on with building his machines.