Here is a quote from H. G. Wells, "The World Set Free." It is set in the future and the narrator is looking back at the year 1910:

"'I have been reading some old papers lately. It is wonderful how our fathers bore themselves towards science. They hated it. They feared it. They permitted a few scientific men to exist and work -- a pitiful handful.... 'Don't find out anything about us,' they said to them; 'don't inflict vision upon us, spare our little ways of life from the fearful shaft of understanding. But do tricks for us, little limited tricks. Give us cheap lighting. And cure us of certain disagreeable things, cure us of cancer, cure us of consumption, cure our colds and relieve us after repletion....'"

People have always hated and feared science and technological progress. I know many scientists who hate science! See:

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