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TIL Theodore John Kaczynski (UNABOMBER and Author of Industrial Society and Its Future) wrote and published three additional books, and a short story, while incarcerated at ADX Florence. Each of these books expanded on anti-technology sentiment of his manifesto and his new concerns for the future.

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