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"Societal consequences" are an emergent phenomenon. By definition, they are impossible to predict. Often, the consequences of some new technology are both good
by clarkmoody 8y ago
"Societal consequences" are an emergent phenomenon. By definition, they are impossible to predict.
Often, the consequences of some new technology are both good and bad.
- roflc0ptic 8y agoThat’s not really part of the definition of emergent phenomenon. Yeah yeah, you can’t predict everything. But you don’t need to be a visionary or defeat the rules of complexity science to predict the NSA.
- s-shellfish 8y agoSome people already experience societal consequences and they have yet to be academically discovered. That's the point of this article. Not future prediction of what could happen. What is happening, and is presently an unknown.