We really have two ways to go.  Neither of them turns the clock back to days before the kind of automation we're really only beginning to employ.  The barn door is wide open.
We can sit quietly while corporate oligarchs continue their shortsighted, greed ridden, snake eating it's own tail destruction of society to realize Kaczynski's fears or we can re-take control of our government and economy and with sound forward thinking we can fulfill the destiny envisioned by Gene Roddenberry.  Mankind is freed from want, from slaving for necessities and other peoples' profits thanks to the effortless bounty of machines.  Each person is able to find some task of worth and personal fulfillment and if some are not able or willing to do that well it's not a major problem.  We can afford it.