History Main / Technophobia

->'''Captain Fanzone: '''This is why I hate machines!\\
'''Prowl: '''No need to be such a technophobe, Captain.\\
'''Captain Fanzone: '''A technophobe is someone who fears technology. (smashing his phone between breaths) Does...this...look...like...FEAR TO YOU?!\\
'''Prowl: '''Um… my mistake.

* In the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' mini-setting ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}} 2000'' in ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' #277, elves became even more isolationist when humans embraced the dwarf-led industrial revolution. However, while they reject engines and gunpowder weapons, they've developed their own {{biotech}} over the years, including stun-gun-like weapons. Meanwhile, the dwarves themselves are suspicious of the newest developments in teleportaton-based {{Magitek}}, preferring cars to the PortalNetwork, and normal guns to the "dimensional rifle".

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E40AThingAboutMachines A Thing About Machines]]", Bartlett Finchley despises all machines, even more than he hates people, and destroys his appliances if he can't get them to work. For instance, he kicked in the screen of his television and threw his radio down the stairs.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Quarantine", the survivors of WorldWarIII in 2043 came to distrust and despise technology because nuclear weapons had wiped out 80% of the world's population. They abandoned machines in favor of improving humanity through [[BioAugmentation genetic engineering]] and achieving harmony with the natural world.

->'''Captain Fanzone: '''[[{{Catchphrase}} This is why I hate machines!]]\\

'''Captain Fanzone: '''A technophobe is someone who fears technology. ([[PunctuatedPounding smashing his phone between breaths]]) Does...this...look...like...FEAR TO YOU?!\\

->'''Captain Fanzone: '''This is why I hate machines!\\

->'''Captain Fanzone:'''This is why I hate machines!\\
'''Prowl:'''No need to be such a technophobe, Captain."\\
'''Captain Fanzone:'''A technophobe is someone who fears technology. ([[PunctuatedPounding smashing his phone between breaths]]) Does...this...look...like...FEAR TO YOU?!\\
'''Prowl:'''Um… my mistake.

* Creator/PeterDickinson's trilogy ''The Changes'' has British people suddenly becoming violently technophobic [[spoiler:under what turns out to be a malevolent extra-terrestrial influence]].

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* Cobra-La in ''Film/GIJoe''. All their "technology" including weapons and vehicles are entirely organic and they consider the human civilization and technology an abomination.
* In ''Film/IRobot'', there's [[Creator/WillSmith Del Spooner]], a Chicago police detective that hates and distrusts robots because one of them rescued him from a car crash, leaving a young girl to die because her survival was statistically less likely than his.
* ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'': The Ba'ku were once a warp-faring people, but after they settled in the Briar Patch they gave up all their technology in favor of a simpler lifestyle of farming. Sojef in particular is rather antagonistic towards it, seemingly trying to shield his son from any contact with it.
* In ''Film/{{Surrogates}}'', there are "dread reservations" which consist of communities that strongly oppose the use of surrogate robots, which are used by the vast majority of the world's population to live their daily lives risk-free, while they consider them abominations and will attack surrogates if they come into their communities.
* ''Film/{{Umma}}'': Amanda's farm relies on wind power for electricity and she does not have a phone due to a sensitivity to electronics. The farm has a sign that reads "No motorized vehicles beyond this point". When Amanda's business partner drives in to pick up cases of her honey, he parks by the sign and leaves his phone and wristwatch in the car behind. In contrast, her uncle from Korea completely disregards the sign and drives in just feet from front door.

** In "Rule of Law", Judge Joshua Finch left Earth and took up the assignment of Fifth Circuit judge on the relatively isolated colony planet Daedalus because he hates anything to do with modern technology. For example, he eschews modern laser guns for an old-fashioned pistol.

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* ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiraciesAliensMythsAndLegends'': The Banshees are a tribe of aliens that arrived on Earth and settled in the wilds of Ireland. Their society is close to the earth and nature, which makes them distrustful to downright homicidal when machines are involved. Sh'lainn is the only known exception, having a more progressive attitude toward technology (she was in favor of steam engines), but even she is frequently heard exclaiming, "I hate technology, I ''hate'' it!"

* ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'': In the episode "Dan vs Technology", Dan and Chris encounter a hermit named Hiram. He hates technology so much, he is angered by hearing about it. He threatens to kill Dan and Chris after learning Dan likes television. [[spoiler:Later in the episode, it is revealed that Hiram used to be the partner of Omicron CEO Barry Ditmer. Ditmer stole Hiram's ideas and inventions and took full credit for them. He then kicked Hiram out of Omicrom. As the result, Hiram disappeared from society and decided to shun technology.]]

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': The religion of Yevon teaches that technology (Machina, as they call it) resulted in the destruction of their once-great civilization and the emergence of the creature known as Sin as their [[AndManGrewProud penance for their pride]], which puts them at odds with the highly-mechanized Al-Bhed. [[spoiler:Of course, this is a case of "[[{{Hypocrite}} do as we say, not as we do]]", as the party finds the Yevon headquarters to be quite technologically advanced, which causes major issues for devout Yevonites, like Wakka. Even more so when Maester Seymore just says, "Pretend you don't see them".]]