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Industrial Society and Its Future

  • 112 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 1995
  • 24 editions

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1 About this book

In 1971 Dr. Theodore Kaczynski rejected modern society and moved to a primitive cabin in the woods of Montana. There, he began building bombs, which he sent to professors and executives to express his disdain for modern society, and to work on his magnum opus, Industrial Society and Its Future, forever known to the world as the Unabomber Manifesto.

Responsible for three deaths and more than twenty casualties over two decades, he was finally identifed and apprehended when his brother recognized his writing style while reading the 'Unabomber Manifesto.' The piece, written under the pseudonym FC (Freedom Club) was published in the New York Times after his promise to cease the bombing if a major publication printed it in its entirety.

Good for readers who want: technology, politics, philosophy, and a short read.

  • Technology
  • Politics
  • Philosophy
  • Political Ideologies
  • Technology, social aspects
  • Humor
  • Radicalism
  • Terrorism

2 About Theodore Kaczynski

1942–2023

Theodore John Kaczynski ( kə-ZIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber ( YOU-na-bom-ər), was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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