Pluses and Minuses

The ability to foresee as many of the potential dangers as possible lurking within a technology is one of the key factors in Thinking the Unthinkable. As we’ve stressed, one of the best ways of accomplishing this is by listing as many of the supposed benefits of a technology as one can and then considering as many ways as possible how the exact opposite can and will occur. In other words, what are all the ways in which technology proposes to make our lives better, and then, how can it systematically fail to do so?