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"The Unabomber is right that technology is a holistic, self-perpetuating machine. He is wrong to bomb it for many reasons, not the least is that the machine of civilization offers us more actual freedoms than the alternative. There is a cost to run this machine, a cost we are only beginning to reckon with, but so far the gains from this ever enlarging technium outweigh the alternative of no machine at all."

I think Kelly agrees with this point. Kaczynski being "right" is really scoped to the argument that technology is a self-perpetuating machine that is not entirely within human control to direct.



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