That’s the nature of progressive risk-taking. In some situations, we receive no incremental feedback; no warning that things are about to go disastrously wrong.
Progressive risk-taking is exacerbated when operating outside of the envelope of previous experience.
Source: Wonky Thoughts: On Progressive Risk-Taking
RE: Apocalypse Not | Matt Ridley
A history of failed predictions of doom
No one in the entire world is as good at summarizing the state of the technology business through slideshow presentations as Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker.
Online culture magazine limn has published a sobering article about how casinos are using hi-tech behavioral profiling of its customers to maximize patron engagement.
Source: The reason casinos track your behavior? To lure you into gambling too much
The manufacturers took what matters least about the iPhone – the trade dress – and made that an obsession. Take what matters most – Apple’s consumer-focused clarity of vision – and see where that gets you.
Source: Intelligent Design And The Modern Cellphone | TechCrunch
For a singularly grim, if fiercely literary, assessment of the earth’s environmental fate, the grizzled wisdom of Cormac McCarthy is always there to deliver the dark pronouncement that we’re flat-out doomed.
reminding environmentally conscientious consumers how easily virtuous intentions can be trumped by negative and unexpected outcomes
Source: The Prius Driver’s Conundrum – Freakonomics Freakonomics