Theodore John Kaczynski was born in 1942 in Chicago. He entered Harvard at sixteen.[1] He completed a PhD in mathematics at Michigan and was appointed assistant professor at UC Berkeley in 1967.[2] He resigned two years later without explanation and moved to a one-room cabin in rural Montana.[3] No electricity. No running water. This was considered eccentric rather than diagnostic.

"The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race."[4] This is the first sentence of the manifesto. It was published in the Washington Post and the New York Times in 1995 after he threatened to kill more people if they didn't.[5] Both papers agreed. The FBI advised them to. This is one of the more successful editorial submissions on record.

"The system does not and cannot exist to satisfy human needs. Instead, it is human behavior that must be modified to fit the needs of the system."[6] He wrote this about industrial capitalism. It reads now as a product roadmap. The difference between Kaczynski and the figures in this network is that he thought this was a problem.

Between 1978 and 1995, he mailed or planted sixteen bombs, killing three people and injuring twenty-three.[7] His targets included computer scientists, engineers, and an advertising executive. His proposed solution to techno-industrial society was its violent destruction. He was identified when his brother recognized the writing in the manifesto.[8] This is documented. The FBI did not catch him. A family member did.

"Technology is a more powerful social force than the aspiration for freedom."[9] This is also from the manifesto. It appears in slide decks now, sometimes without attribution. Kaczynski died in federal custody in 2023.[10] He had been incarcerated since 1996. His analysis of industrial systems has since been cited approvingly by people who run very large technology companies. He would have found this clarifying.