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This article reminded me a lot of stuff written by Mumford, Jacques Ellul, and even Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber). Their stuff is worth reading. Industrial Soc
by johnfjacobi 10y ago
This article reminded me a lot of stuff written by Mumford, Jacques Ellul, and even Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber). Their stuff is worth reading.
Industrial Society and Its Future http://wildism.org/rca/items/show/13 http://wildism.org/rca/items/show/13
Also Ellul's The Technological Society
- M_Grey 10y agoThanks for the link, I haven't read that in full, just parts.
- dredmorbius 10y agoMumford and Ellul are among the references in Vaclav Smil's Energy in World History, which I'm just completing. It came out in 1994, too early for Kaczynski's Manifesto (1995), but it wouldn't surprise me if he references it in later works (I've not yet checked). Bill Joy cites Kaczynski in his own Wired 2000 essay, "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us".