Ted Kaczynski

American mathematician who became the Unabomber — conducting a 17-year mail bombing campaign that killed 3 and wounded 23 — and whose manifesto Industrial Society and Its Future argues that technological civilization has irrevocably destroyed human psychological freedom and that only its collapse can restore genuine human autonomy.

Wrote the most intellectually serious critique of industrial technological civilization from a primitivist perspective — the Manifesto's argument that technology creates a system that subordinates human freedom to its own expansion, and that reformist fixes only integrate individuals more deeply into dependence, anticipates mainstream concerns about technological alienation.