pynchon and revolutionary luddism

Since I can't access the other two excerpts from books to read for tomorrow, I spent some time following a few links about cautionary attitudes toward technology. I happened upon an essay by Thomas Pynchon from 1984 (appropriate date, eh?) that asks, "Is it ok to be a Luddite?" Pynchon, for those who don't know, is a recluse, scientist and novelist who is infamous for the impenetrable allusions littered in his text. Think Da Vinci Code only 100 IQ points higher, without all the answers and linear plot.

Anyway, he notes the revolutionary origins of the word Luddite, and how resisting the seemingly inexorable march of progress is not a new phenomenon. People have always had an uneasy relationship with the machines that make their lives easier because these machines also make some lives obsolete. Smashing the machines didn't work then and Pynchon laughs off the idea now (well, in 1984), too. It seems like resistance to the information revolution or computer age or whatever-you-want-to-call-it comes mostly in the form of uninformed legislation and ivory tower academics. What would violent resistance to the "Information Society" look like?