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    Default Blowback - the law of unintended consequences

    In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences) are outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen. The term was popularised in the twentieth century by American sociologist Robert K. Merton and expanded by economist Thomas Sowell and psychologist Stuart Vyse.[1]

    Unintended consequences can be grouped into three types:

    Unexpected benefit: A positive unexpected benefit (also referred to as luck, serendipity or a windfall).
    Unexpected drawback: An unexpected detriment occurring in addition to the desired effect of the policy (e.g., while irrigation schemes provide people with water for agriculture, they can increase waterborne diseases that have devastating health effects, such as schistosomiasis).
    Perverse result: A perverse effect contrary to what was originally intended (when an intended solution makes a problem worse).


    There can be little if any doubt that technological innovations (television, computers, cellphones, social media, etc.) have unleashed a bounty of negative, mostly unintended, consequences on society. From contributing to markedly more sedentary lifestyles (and all the health disorders associated with them) mountains of toxic tech waste in landfills and a confusing (but nonetheless pronounced) shift towards relativism. Their advent has changed the world forever, and those changes have had far-reaching repercussions, not all of which are bad. Modern products, apps, and services have also saved lives, created jobs, connected humankind, and fueled entirely new economies, i.e., the internet of things. Whether or not the world is better off because of them depends entirely on who you are talking to. At the very least, the ripple effects of modern technology are a decidedly mixed-bag for humanity that appears to be taking a sinister turn—something The Law of Unintended Consequences could have easily predicted.



    "It Is Certain": The Law of Unintended Consequences

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    Default Re: Blowback - the law of unintended consequences

    as a shaman and magican creating future events with the hidden Universal Force of Intent, I often defere or modify actions by studying the possible effect of blowback before i EXECUTE.
    However, scientists, industrialists, economists and politicians constantly ignore the law of unintended consequences, with universal repercussions



    book at https://ca1lib.vip/book/2604363/e6651f
    Blowback: the costs and consequences of American empire

    Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy (Forbidden Bookshelf)
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    Default Re: Blowback - the law of unintended consequences

    here are more books from The Forbidden Bookshelf (hello Tintin ! some of these should be in the PA library!)

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    Default Re: Blowback - the law of unintended consequences

    Quote Posted by kfm27917 (here)
    here are more books from The Forbidden Bookshelf (hello Tintin ! some of these should be in the PA library!)

    https://ca1lib.vip/fulltext/Forbidde...f/?type=phrase
    Thanks I had to sign up to download that particular text, and have done so now.
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