Unintended consequences of technology

Revenge effects are not side effects, rather they are a consequence of technological advances acquiring their own unforeseen momentum in ways that are experienced as unpleasant by humanity.

Examples include: the rise of drug-resistant bacteria in response to invention of antibiotics; the increase in road traffic as a resultant of the construction of roads; the increase in paper in efforts to achieve a paperless office.

1. Technology wants to hurt us. Revenge effects could end up destroying the world, or civilization as it is currently known.

1. In nature there are neither rewards not punishments -- there are consequences. (Robert Green Ingersoll).

1. Unintended consequences
2. Uncontrolled application of technology

1. Uncontrolled environmental impact of technology
2. Fear of new technology

1. Technological programme errors
2. Proliferation of technology
3. Irresponsible scientific and technological activity
4. Inadaptation of technology to man
5. Fast and irregular pace of technological advance

1. Irresponsible modification of natural environment
2. Demonic technology

1. Managing the Unintended Consequences of Technology
2. The Unintended Consequences of Technology