50% On the relationship between technium's evolution and human being's oppression

I'd say Unabomber's view on the relationship between technium's evolution and human being's oppression is indeed futuristic and eye-opening. In contrast, the author's counter argument seems relatively week and a bit elusive.

The deduction of human being's oppression as a result of technium's evolution appears logical and natural. With the intelligence and complexity of the technium increasing exponentially, a point would be reached that all decisions would have been taken away from human beings because the incomprehensible nature of the technium would make human being's decisions useless. To prevent the gloomy future, many anarcho primitivists proposed to collapse the modern civilization based on industrial societies entirely. The author refuted the proposal by basically saying that there is also no future even if we go back to the primitive state with zero technology and the author stopped there. So we are left with no choice but to march into the dark future awaiting us?

I doubt so. Neither the unabomber nor the author recognized that the magnitudes of existence of the technium and human beings are different thus the wants and desires from both parties might not even be in the same dimension. Without direct conflicts of interest, why would human beings must be exploited or oppressed for the survival or development of the technium? The author himself said that the relationship between human beings and the technium is symbiotic, which essentially means both parties gain from this relationship. It is perfectly possible for technium to grant more degrees of freedom to human beings while the results produced by human beings fulfilling the technium's wants at the same time. This relationship is similar to that between us and some micro organism that could produce gas. We provide them with food while our need of energy is fulfilled by their existence. However, our need remains incomprehensible to them in this symbiotic relationship in a similar way technium's wants remains mysterious to us. A bigger challenge is to make sense of us as being inside the more encompassing technium rather than pondering on the artificial divide between human beings and the technium (which should be seen as the extension of our life)

Just to finish off, the chapter on the Unabomber is really interesting and worth reading.