Author: Theodore Kaczynski
Edition: First
Number Of Pages: 236
Release Date: 31-08-2016
Details: Product Description In Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How , Kaczynski compellingly argues for why rational control over the development of society is forever impossible. Rather than being guided by ""reason,"" Kaczynski shows that a universal process analogous to biological natural selection operates autonomously on all dynamic systems and that this process primarily determines all significant historical developments. Furthermore, Kaczynski argues for why the direct consequences of uncontrollable technological growth necessarily leads to a disastrous disruption of the natural equilibrium of global biological and human social systems. Based on this new understanding of social and biological change, and by way of an extensive historical and theoretical examination of prior social movements and revolutions, Kaczynski argues that there is only one route available to effect substantial influence on the course of human development to avoid the disaster that technological growth entails: a revolution against technology and industrial society. To this end, Kaczynski offers a practical, ""grand-strategic"" prescription for the only realistic way to significantly alter the course of society to prevent the fast-approaching technological disaster. Review "In this thoughtful book, Dr Kaczynski provides a blueprint for the radical anti-technology movement. If you want to stop AI before it's too late, this may be your best bet." -- Dylan Evans, Ph.D., author of The Utopia Experiment "Kaczynski understands what those of us more fully participating in the technological system are unable to fully appreciate: that technological society is beyond rational human control and will result in cataclysmic harm. What he presents is a sound moral argument with what should be eye-opening historical social illustrations that are, together, too numerous to refute." -- Jai Galliott, Ph.D., School of Engineering and Information Technology, UNSW Canbarra "Kaczynski's second book, Anti-Tech Revolution, is a true milestone in thinking about technology. It is a well-researched, well-written, and thoroughly-documented work dedicated to undermining the technological system before its worst consequences become reality. Nothing else like it exists. All those concerned with the future of humanity and the planet would do well to study it carefully." -- Prof. David Skrbina, University of Michigan, Dearborn, USA "Theodore Kaczynski has an interesting history. At age 25, he became an assistant professor of mathematics at University of California, Berkeley, the youngest professor ever hired by the university. After resigning at age 26, Kaczynski retreated to a remote cabin in Montana to learn to survive self-sufficiently. Frustrated at finding many natural areas replaced by roads and infrastructure and disillusioned with the current system of societal reform, the former mathematician turned to domestic terrorism. Kaczynski first published Industrial Society and Its Future in 1995 by mailing out letters to targets and news outlets, proclaiming that he would stop his bombing campaign if they published his essay word-for-word. In 1996, the 'Unabomber, ' as Kaczynski was called, was finally arrested. He is imprisoned for life. Even in prison, Kaczynski has continued to write. The ambitious title of latest book Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How would suggest that Kaczynski, after years of deliberating in prison, has found and published the solution to the uncertainty of a technological future. The solution he proposes in this work, however, is not so clear-cut. He differentiates his book's arguments from those of an engineering textbook, prefacing: '[a]n engineering textbook provides precise rules which, if followed mechanically, will consistently give the expected results. But no such precise and reliable rules are possible in the social sciences. The ideas in this book therefore need to be applied thoughtfully and creatively, not mechanically or rigidly.' Flexibility and thoug
EAN: 9781944228002
Languages: English
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Item Condition: UsedLikeNew