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It has spawned the dystopian and futuristic cyberpunk genre, which juxtaposes futuristic technology with societal collapse, dystopia or decay. Notable cyberpunk works include William Gibson’s Neuromancer novel, and movies like Blade Runner, and The Matrix. Between the Seventies and Nineteen Nineties, American terrorist Ted Kaczynski carried out a series of bombings throughout America and revealed the Unabomber Manifesto denouncing technology’s negative impacts on nature and human freedom. It was partly impressed by Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society. The earliest identified revolt in opposition to technology was Luddism, a pushback against early automation in textile manufacturing. Automation had resulted in a… You Can Read More This Article here