But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.

It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through REPEATED compromises.

Manifesto. Read my Manifesto. I`ve written a Manifesto. It`s all in the Manifesto!

It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness

Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the police or the military), the system maintains its monopoly on physical force and thus keeps all power in its own hands.

Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were smarter than people? If, in the future, people, animals and plants were products of technology? If you don't like these ideas, then for you the computer and biological sciences clearly are dangerous.

But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.