The veteran tech analyst, writer, and entrepreneur Om Malik weighed in last week for The New Yorker with some thoughts about Uber, the ride-summoning service that is one of the most destructive of paradigm-destroying new companies in existence.
In his post, which was published online Friday, Malik links ongoing protests against Uber--which include demonstrations by taxi drivers in Paris and lawsuits brought by Uber drivers in the U.S.--to those of the Luddites, the English protesters who destroyed job-killing mechanized looms at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
"It was skilled workers raging against the influx of unskilled labor," he writes.