“As technology progresses and globalization grows more pervasive, the world-system becomes ever more complex and more tightly coupled, so that a catastrophic breakdown has to be expected sooner or later.”

— Theodore Kaczynski

Source: Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015), p. 49

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