Unabomber: High-Tech Auction for Man Who Hated Technology

Friday, 13 May 2011 | by Pat's Picks

The sunglasses? For sale. The hoodie? Not this time. The Unabomber’s personal effects will be auctioned off later this month by the US Marshall Service who, says the Chicago Tribune, understands the irony of the online sale: “We will use the technology that Kaczynski railed against in his various manifestos to sell artifacts of his life.”

Among the auction items are “driver’s licenses, birth certificates, deeds, checks, academic transcripts and photos. Also, typewriters, tools, clothing, watches, several hundred books and more than 20,000 pages of written documents, including the original handwritten and typewritten versions of his ‘Industrial Society and its Future.’” Oh, and then there are the sunglasses. Several pairs will be auctioned off, including ones similar to the pair Kaczynski was wearing in his famous sketch.

The auction will star on May 18th; you can check out the online catalog here starting May 18th