Consider Kaczynski’s observation that “if the use of a new item of technology is initially optional, it does not necessarily remain optional because the new technology tends to change society in such a way that it becomes difficult or impossible for an individual to function without using that technology”. Now contrast that with the declaration by the United Nations that access to the internet is nothing less than an inalienable human right, right up there with food, shelter and education.

His article does an incredible job of highlighting events/patterns happening today. It's a scary ending though. Either society crumbles and we return to much more primitive life or society continues but we become cogs and engineered products in a machine. Both scenarios involve long periods of anguish and suffering.

"Industrial Society and Its Future" Paragraphs 2-4

I would love to hear his perspectives on what is happening today.