Toronto, Ontario Mar 23, 2026 (Issuewire.com) - For decades, cyberpunk dystopias have been the stuff of fiction. Millions of people have read William Gibson novels, and watched Blade Runner. Terminator 2 was one of the highest grossing blockbusters of the 1990s. But fans could relax, knowing that there was a difference between science fiction and reality.
2026 paints a different story. People are much more likely these days to consider our current reality to be a cyberpunk dystopia. And that’s likely to be true. The internet and phones have evolved to become instruments of mass surveillance. People are falling in love with bots, Gen AI, and it’s alleged to have caused many deaths by suicide, with AI psychosis being even more common. Law enforcement has AI contolled drones and Boston Dynamics robot dogs. There are even politicians and tech billionaires who believe Gen AI can be used for Minority Report-style “pre-crime,” arresting people before they’ve committed hypothetical crimes.
Kim Crawley is a former cybersecurity professor at the Open Institute of Technology, she’s featured in Tribe of Hackers (Wiley Tech, 2019), the Who’s Who book of the cybersecurity field, and she wrote and co-wrote some of the bestselling books about ethical hacking, such as The Pentester Blueprint (with Phillip Wylie, Wiley Tech, 2020). She’s also the founder of Stop Gen AI, the only political activism organization that’s dedicated to fighting Gen AI beyond protesting datacenters.
Although most of her books have been produced through major publishers, as the world got more politically hostile, she’s preferred to write about controversial matters candidly, without corporate interference. So she’s turned to self-publishing and Kickstarter.
Her upcoming book Technofascism Survival Guide had a Kickstarter campaign that ran from January to February of this year. And she raised nearly three times as much as her $2,700 CAD goal. Kickstarter personally selected her book as part of their "Project We Love" initative.
Technofascism Survival Guide is intended to be accessible to ordinary people, not just hackers and computer nerds.
In her book, she claims that Silicon Valley’s fascist origins began with Stanford University eugencists in the 19th century, which continued through the explosion of the computer technology industry, and exists today in the form of Gen AI, law enforcement using the internet, phones, and smart devices for mass surveillance, and tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos being featured at Donald Trump’s second inauguration.
She believes that in order for ordinary people to maintain their safety as they struggle financially and worry about their immigrant neighbors, they need to learn from the wisdom of political activists of the recent past, such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., and the hacktivists of today such as Anonymous and DarkSeoul.
There are many lawful and practical things that laypeople can do to greatly improve their privacy and decrease the dangers of modern technology. Technofascism Survival Guide features actionable advice that regular people will be able to use. There are also immense mental health benefits to greatly reducing the amount of Gen AI slop you’re bombarded with, and reclaiming control of your phones, PCs, and the internet.
Kim has a track record of successfully fulfilled Kickstarter campaigns, and she’s written a large part of the book already. She researches and writes the old fashioned way, with her brain and absolutely zero AI. She’s consulted with Anonymous hackers and other cybersecurity experts to make sure her book has excellent advice that you’re unlikely to find elsewhere.
Although the Kickstarter campaign for Technofascism Survival Guide officially ended in February, it’s not too late to support the book before its projected June publication date! Kickstarter has a new “Late Pledges” feature. From now until June, through Kickstarter, you can reserve your DRM-free eBook, which works in Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, Google Books, and most other eBook readers, for only about $13 USD.
To learn more about Technofascism Survival Guide and to reserve your eBook through Kickstarter, visit kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide. For more information about Kim and her body of work, visit kimcrawley.com. And to contact Kim for free book samples and media inquiries, email kim.crawley@stopgenai.com.
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