I just came across this quote by Eric Sevareid: "The cause of problems is solutions." This just highlights the need to anticipate new problems before they occur while we are busy solving current problems -- which is essentially a statement of the precautionary principle. The way we go about that in this hyper-technology world is through modeling scenarios and using rigorous analytical methods to try to understand what can happen in the future.
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