The Net

Ted Kaczynski, the CIA, and the History of Cyberspace

In 1996, the FBI captured American domestic terrorist and former mathematics professor and anarchist author Ted Kaczynski (aka: The Unabomber) who understood himself to be battling the increasing technologization of the world.

In the mid-20th century, a host of intellectual developments--including cybernetics and systems theory, multimedia art, new concepts of psychology and military research--came to the fore and became relevant in influencing and controlling communications and mass behaviors. With the development of the internet in the 1980s, the question arose: What does the unlimited development of information technology mean for human society?