Industrial Society and Its Future

This book offers the Arabic reader the complete translation of Ted Kaczynski's manifesto, which became one of the most controversial texts in America. Although the book focuses on presenting the manifesto itself in clear language, it also gives a necessary glimpse of Kaczynski, who graduated from Harvard and worked as a university lecturer before choosing to live in isolation in a small cabin in the forests of Montana, far from the technological progress he believed was destroying humankind and stripping people of their freedom. Over time, Kaczynski's ideas turned into violent acts as he began sending mail bombs targeting airplanes, universities and research centers, causing long years of fear and anxiety across the United States. No one knew who was behind the attacks until Kaczynski pressured the newspapers into publishing his manifesto in full in exchange for stopping the bombings, which is what happened after wide controversy. The reader follows how the words of the manifesto led the FBI to track him down and arrest him after one of the longest manhunts in the country's history. The book presents Kaczynski's ideas in a simplified language close to the reader, so that reading the manifesto becomes comprehensible and connected to the context in which it was born, without complexity or theorizing. In this way the book becomes a direct gateway to understanding the mind of one of the most dangerous criminals in modern America, and allows the Arabic reader to encounter the text that stirred wide controversy for many years.