Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How - Softcover

Kaczynski, Theodore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944228004 ISBN 13: 9781944228002

Publisher: Fitch & Madison Publishers, LLC, 2016

Synopsis

There are many people today who see that modern society is heading toward disaster in one form or another, and who moreover recognize technology as the common thread linking the principal dangers that hang over us... The purpose of this book is to show people how to begin thinking in practical, grand-strategic terms about what must be done in order to get our society off the road to destruction that it is now on." —from the Preface.

Publisher's Description:

A comprehensive historical analysis explaining the futility of social control and the catastrophic influence of technological growth on human social and planetary ecological systems. Distilled from the critical socio-historical analysis is the author's own theoretical framework for effecting meaningful and lasting change.

Note: Theodore John Kaczynski does not receive any remuneration for this book.

EUROPEAN READERS: Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How is published in Europe by Soregra Editores, and is available for purchase on most European Amazon sites including www.amazon.co.uk.

SOUTH AMERICAN READERS: Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How is published in South America by Publit, and is available for purchase online at http://www.publit.com.br/.

About this title

About the Author

Note: Theodore John Kaczynski does not receive any remuneration for this book.

From the Inside Flap

Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How builds on and extends Theodore Kaczynski's previous works, Industrial Society and Its Future and Technological Slavery, and represents the culmination of a lifetime of purposeful research and analytic inquiry into the devastating implications of technological growth, as well as the urgent need and organized procedures required to halt it.

Anti-Tech Revolution argues that the global technological system is fundamentally incapable of reforming itself and will, unless challenged, inevitably lead to total disaster for humans and the biosphere. It offers a strategic program for organizing and motivating people to take effective steps toward meaningful change, based on a comprehensive analysis of social movements and a new theoretical framework for understanding the dynamics of social change.

Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How is more than a theoretical analysis. It is a practical guide, offering methods to steer humanity away from the unprecedented existential crisis it faces as a result of runaway technological growth. A work of advocacy and a call to serious, specific, practical action, Anti-Tech Revolution implores its readers to address the problem of technology head-on with optimism and courage.

Reviews

 “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

 

 “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 

Edition details

• Publisher: Fitch & Madison Publishers, LLC
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1944228004
• ISBN 13: 9781944228002
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236