Coruellls About The Author Whose Unabomber'1 CONTENTS THE UNABOMBER I 2 6 Introduction Psychology of Modem Ll:ftism Feelings of Inferiority Oversoeia.lisation The Power Process Surrogate Activitie.s Aulonomy Sources of Social Problems Disruption ofthe Powa Process in Modem Society How Some People Adjust The Motives of Scientists The Nature of Freedom Some Principle.s of History Industrial-Technolo1,>lcai Society CltilnoL Oe Reformed Restriction of Freedom is Unavoidable in IndustrlLll SocieLY The 'Bad' Parts of Technology Cannot Be Separued From The: 'Good' Parts Technology is a MOle Powerful Social f-orce than the Aspira1ion for Freedom Simpler Social Problenu Hive Proved In1l'IIctable: Revolution is Easier Than Refonn Control of Human Behaviollf Human Race at a CrOiOsroadi Human Suffering lbe: Future StnUegy Two Kinds orTechnology The Danger of Lertism Final Note N" Unabomber's Communiqoo Useful Addresses APPENDIX • • 10 12 14 I' " I6 18 21 23 2' 2S 21 27 2' 30 33 33 34 37 3. ,. '2 47 48 51 S2 58 61
- INDUSTRJAL SOCIETY AND rrs A/T1JRE ABOUT THE AUTHOR The Unabomber is at the lop of America's MoSl Wanted list, .. $1 million reward on his head for 16 bombings since 1978. A specialist team of 150 FBI offic:en have interviewed over 10,000 suspects and speDt $50 million in an unsuccessful anempt to Slop him. They admit he'. ''very clever" and ". craftsman", exhaustively familiar with explosivu 'cookboob' boIb commercial and underground, new and old, and individually f&sWoning the parts of hb devices from SCflIp metal, right down to screW," to make himseU more difficult 10 trace. He also won celebrity in the US a.s the "Swiec Pimpernel of mailbombers" and spectacular publicity for primitivist ideas worldwide during the evenu: that led up to the publication of Industrial Soci,ry 4< lu FI/.IIiU in September 1995, forcing even technocrats targeted by him to concede "there', a linIe bit o(the Unabomber in each of us " , The Unabomber'l first device. .. cigar box with match-head charge and elastic band detonators within. was found In the ear park of the Univemy of filinoit, Chicago, on 2S May 1978. Instead of reaching the professor at New Yorlt's Rensselaer Polytecilflic Institute il was addre,used 10, the device was posted back to Northwestern University where it slightly injured a campus cop that became suspicious enough 10 open it. A second device ignited at Northwestern Univemry almost a year later, 9 May 1979, slighly injuring a nudent but it was the explosion of a third device in the belly of a Boeing 727 on a domestie flight between Chicago and WlUhinglon on IS November 1979, injuring 12, thllt got the FBI involved. This tllird action bought the previous two to light, setting the reds on their long and fruitJeSi SUlCh for Amenka's "1er.haI Luddite". This new development didn't deter him from posting Perey Wood, president of United Airlines, .. book bomb that injured him in We f"On, filinois, on 10 June 1980. The attack on Wood led the FBI to file their elusive serial bomber II.'; 'Vnabom' - 'Un-' standing for 'univemty' as much as 'United Airline5'. In his lint 1995 oommunique to the Nt"" York TiI, the Unabombtt oonceded planting his next device In a classroom of the University of Utah's Business school on g November 1981 was "a mistake". It injured no-one. Two montJu after a S May 1982 pipebombing injured an unidentified academic at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, the Unabomber struck for the first time at the University of California on 2 July 1982. During the national holiday weekend, a parcel. bomb was found on the floor of the coffee Joungue or lhe Berkcley campuses engineering department. An electroruu professor's face and hands were severely damaged as he unwnppcd the package, which he mistook. for a "measuring instrument". Some fuewor:k.! Three years laler, the Unabomber got right to the bcny of the Berkl:ley beast,leaving a parcel bomb in its computer room on IS May 1985 thai cost the maths graduale that opened it the fingers ofhiJ rigbt hand. Leas than a month later, on 13 June 1985, the Boeing Corporation was hit a second time. I bomb being sent to the Wuhington office but getting inlercepled before it could do harm. ss fOI1unale wu the rcsearch. assUtant of a University of Mlehigan professor. Although sent to his home on 1 S November 1985, the assistant wu injured operung the parcel for him. Homan shield tactics or what? The Unabombcr changed tactics too the next month, concealing his next device under wooden boardJ in the ear park of I Sacremen\o, California, oomputer store on 11 December 1985. The store manager foundl: the device and, bending to pick it up, had his hurt shredded by the ensuing explosion. the first of the Unabomber's targds 10 die. Oearly encouraged. he tried to repeat this tactic outside a Salt Lake City computer store on 20 February 1987. Again the store manager concerned was injured but somtOne wl:aring a hood and big, dark: shadCJ thl: FBI believe may be the Unabamber was spotted in the ear parle by a woman clerk. This was the closest he ever got to being caught and the FBllhemse\ve5 admit the stlLlldaro artiJl's skdCh arising from the witness description is so "crappy" they can't even decide on his hair colour or estimate his age more lICCunuely than II 111 _In 17 V .. .. The nUlli bomber'.InIH Date Location What Happened THE UNABOMBER May 25, '1$178 Northwestern Univ Package bomb. 1 injured Evanston, III lIay I, 1178 Nov 1S, 1878 Northwestern Univ American Airlines Chicago to Washington .June 10, 1880 Lake Forest, 1/1 Oct 8, 1181 lIay 5, 1882 .July 2, 1182 May 15, 1885 Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville Univ of CaliJomia 81 Beri(eley Univ of California al Berkeley .tune 13, 1885 Boeing Company Auburn. Wash. Nov 16, 1185 DK 11, 1185' Feb 20, t887 Ann Arbour. Mich. Sacramento, Calif Salt Lake C;ty .June 22, 18D3 Tiburon, Calif. .Nne 24, 1883 Yale Univ. New Haven Dec 10. 1884 North Caldwell, NJ April 24, 1885 Sacramento, Calif. Bomb in a box. 1 injured Bomb lor delivery to . unknown location explOdes aboard Boeing 727. 12 injured Package bomb. 1 injured Bomb in classroom No injuries Pipe bomb. 1 injured Pipe bomb. 1 injured Bomb in computer room. 1 serious injury Package bomb. No injuries Package bomb mailed to home of Univ of Mich. professor. 1 Injured 80mb explOdes outside a computer store. 1 dealh Bomb outside a computer store. 1 injury Package bomb', mailed 10 well known geneticist. 1 severe injury Package bomb, mailed to offic of a professor. 1 severe injury Package bomb mailed to home of Thomas Mosser, NY advertising executive. 1 death Package bomb mailed to iobbying offices of Cah1 Forestry As&oc. 1 Death
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