Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How Mass Market Paperback – August 31, 2016

"Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How is Kaczynski’s well-reasoned, cohesive composition about how revolutionary groups should approach our mercurial future….. I recommend that you read this compelling perspective on how we can frame our struggles in a technological society."
 -- The Tech, MIT's oldest and largest newspaper

"His work, despite his deeds, deserves a place alongside Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, and 1984, by George Orwell."
-- Dr. Keith Ablow, Fox News

"He is clearly a Luddite, but simply saying this does not dismiss his argument... As difficult as it is for me to acknowledge, I saw some merit in the reasoning in [Kaczynski's writing]."
-- Bill Joy, founder of Sun Microsystems

"He has provided a critical vision that we've been missing out on."
-- Prof. Ben Brucato, UMass-Amherst, USA

"...a rational mind is on display in this book."
-- Prof. Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, UK

"There is nothing in [ISAIF] that looks at all like the work of a madman. The language is clear, precise and calm. The argument is subtle and carefully developed, lacking anything even faintly resembling the wild claims or irrational speculation that a lunatic might produce."
--James Q. Wilson, Ph.D., former president of the American Political Science Association

 "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'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

“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 Canberra

“There are more than a few people who feel that society's rush toward a technological future will lead to disaster. This book presents some pointers for thinking in broad, strategic terms about getting society off that particular road. …The reader will get a lot out of it. This is very highly recommended.”

                                                                                                            —Midwest Book Review

Selected Quotations from
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
by Theodore John Kaczynski

Technology Can Not Be Controlled

• "The development of societies will forever remain beyond rational human control." (p 31)
• "(H)umans' capacity to control the development of their societies not only hasfailed to progress, but has actually retrogressed." (p 12)
• "If the development of the technological world system is allowed to proceed to its logical conclusion, then in all probability the Earth will be left a dead planet." (p 55)
• "We have to conclude that humans will become obsolete." (p 71)

• "Natural selection favors self-propagating systems that pursue their own short-term advantage with little or no regard for long-term consequences." (p 44)
• "Through a process of natural selection, the world comes to be dominated by organizations that make maximum possible use of all available resources to augment their own power without regard to long-term consequences." (p 57)
• "[There exists] a process common to all technologically-advanced civilizations that consistently leads them to self-destruction." (p 55)

• "The only way to get off the road to disaster that we are now on would be through a total collapse of organized society and therefore a descent into chaos." (p 33)
• "Desperate competition among the global self-prop systems will tear the world-system apart.... The chances of survival will approach zero. A catastrophic breakdown has tobe expected sooner or later." (p 48-49)
• "Anti-tech revolutionaries can't be satisfied with extracting concessions from the power-structure; they have to bring it down altogether." (p 144)
• "The goal a revolutionary movement sets itself must be nothing less than the total collapse of the technological system." (p 161)
• "A revolutionary organization should seek not to be liked, but to be respected, and it should have no aversion to being hated and feared." (p 155)
• "If the technological system were eliminated now a great deal could still be saved." (p 68)

• TJK coins the term "Technianity" -- a religious belief in technological progress leading to a technological utopia such as the Singularity. (p74)
• "The notion of a future society governed in accord with a mathematical control system, rationally chosen and designed, can be dismissed as science fiction." (p 189)