Should Resisting the Introduction of a new technology be seen as anti-progressive

Should a group resisting the introduction of a specific technology be seen as anti-progress? Why? Support your argument with one or more examples of disputes about technological developments. Technology has been defined as “the application of science to production”, by Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, this definition for the sake of this argument is too narrow. The writers on technology in its social context Emmanual G. Mesthene and John Kenneth Galbraith have formulated their …

…to continue to enjoy the standards of living we have come to enjoy through technological advancements that have been made since late last century, that appears to have encompassed all areas of our lives. However, those who oppose progress occurring in certain areas of technology are not simply ‘anti-progress’, but do so to prevent what they believe will be the dire political, social, moral, economic or environmental consequences of the application of the new technology.