Being at uni in the UK today, i think, would be VERY frustrating for a neo-luddite.
Take for example, a day for Englebert the neo-luddite in the middle of a semester, if he has managed to survive getting into uni without using computers in the first place, enrollment, online timetables, making friends who are in constant communication using facebook and mobile phones, etc.
Englebert attends lectures and seminars all day ending each one with a quick visit to the possibly annoyed lecturer to quickly pick up that weeks reading, as he refuses to use computers and printers and heads to the library to start the reading. However he cannot gain access to the library as he will not use the small electronic swipe card to get in and so heads home to his accommodation, where he must first go to the office so that someone can walk him to his building with a key card to let him in because he doesn't use his own and so cannot enter the building.
He then retrieves to his room where he sits alone writing notes with pen and paper because he disagrees with the guys television and games consoles and the girls electronic hair equipment laying around the so-called 'communal area'.
It's one of his coursemates birthdays and half the course is apparently going out for a nice meal together but of course he has no facebook account or mobile phone for people to have invited him out. So he makes his way to the train station as he is going home for the weekend instead, but misses his train because he couldn't book his tickets online and the ticket Que was so long, so he has to wait a frustrating 3 and a half hours for the next train.
At home he cannot keep in touch with coursemates or flatmates because he has no means of electronic communication with them and then a large snow storm blocks the family into the home during the weekend.
The family cannot call anyone to come and remove the snow so poor Englebert can't return back to uni on time the following week nor can he email friends or lecturers telling them of the disaster because of the lack of such technology.
The thought on all Englebert's family members minds is 'should he even bother bless his heart?'
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