Carolina QuotesTo those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.
Ted Kaczynski Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Control of Human Behavior", paragraph 160
- work
- Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
- year
- 1995
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“To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction…” Ted Kaczynski. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-A9D1CAB34D. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/a9d1cab34d
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