"The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.” One can imagine hearing the clicking sounds as the author, hidden away in a simple cabin in the mountains, labours on a typewriter, producing the document that would make him notoriously famous.

Having demonstrated an advanced aptitude for mathematics and an IQ of 167, Theodore John Kaczynski enrolled at Harvard University at the age of 16. Nine years later, he earned his doctorate and became the youngest professor ever hired by the University of California, Berkeley.