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“Though Kaczynski is unable and unwilling to give a timeline, his very forceful argument is that technology can only continue to accelerate, and we are accelerating to our inevitable ruin.”
“Nick Land (@Outsideness) has repeatedly alluded to the metaphor of an increasingly inter-connected, tech-dominated, left-leaning world that has slowly but unstoppably grown through the course of history as something akin to an out-of-control Lovecraftian monster...”
“(although Land appears to want the monster to succeed).”
“Destruction of the world’s technology would be devastating and involve death for a large percentage of the global population, but it will be nothing compared to the total destruction that awaits us when technology is even more advanced.”
“I can see the truth of what Kaczynski is trying to tell us, though I am personally unable to follow the logic all the way to its conclusion. Who exactly is going to carry out his anti-tech revolution and bring down everything modern society is based upon? Certainly not me.”
“Rootless, atomised within urban society, unable to survive without the accoutrements of modern technology and lacking the support network of someone in a more traditional way of life: I & everybody I hold dear would be dead within weeks of a large-scale takedown of the internet”
And now some Ted news! I’m pleased to say that my contacts with Ted tell me he will have a new work out this year entitled “Technological Slavery” - The first of a two-part volume. I will be reviewing one of the first copies. Can’t wait!
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