Carolina QuotesThe technophiles are taking us all on an utterly reckless ride into the unknown. Many people understand something of what technological progress is doing to us yet take a passive attitude toward it because they think it is inevitable. But we (FC) don't think it is inevitable. We think it can be stopped, and we will give here some indications of how to go about stopping it.
Ted Kaczynski Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Strategy", paragraph 180
- work
- Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
- year
- 1995
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“The technophiles are taking us all on an utterly reckless ri…” Ted Kaczynski. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-7CCC46C591. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/7ccc46c591
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