The interesting comment about Burroughs in the otherwise ill-advised AI thread reminded me of one of the rare instances where Reed's history of industrial music was actually insightful rather than proscriptive:
QuoteIt is through this reality that one can't view Burroughs and industrial music as merely technophobic; instead they have a techno-paranoid streak. Industrial music's debt to Futurism's uncomplicated machine idolatry precludes a Luddite, antitechnological response to its perception of media totalitarianism---this isn't folk music we're talking about. So as the music stakes out territory amidst the larger machines it seeks to dismantle and rewire, it's thus appropriately ambivalent. In perusing even the names of industrial bands, albums, and songs, we can see roughly equal amounts of valorizing and humanizing of technology as well as a reactionary call to destroy it.
Assimilate, p. 40