Thus it is clear that the human race has at best a very limited capacity for solving even relatively straightforward social problems. How then is it going to solve the far more difficult and subtle problem of reconciling freedom with technology?
Ted Kaczynski Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Simpler Social Problems Have Proved Intractable", paragraph 138
- work
- Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
- year
- 1995
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