The Pros and Cons of Retrenching Technology

Kaczynski: If we hope to get a hand on these problems, we need to address it at the level of the technological structure of the system itself. It will take a near-term catastrophe where, I don't know, hundreds of thousands of people may die or probably millions of people would have to die. And then you'll wake up to what really is happening and maybe that will bring around some kind of action in society. You'd like to think there was a slow, rational process by which we could work our way out of this mess without a catastrophe. That seems to be unlikely. Kaczynski himself has spent a lot of time arguing that you really have very little hope