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Unintended in sentence

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Future tech always comes with two things: promise and unintended consequences.
And before we get to how future tech may affect us, I'd like to spend a little time exploring the unintended consequences of some of our recent tech, namely, social media.
It's really like an Easy Street for bacteria, with the occasional interruption of the unintended forced rush to the exit.
Well, it's an unintended consequence.
I didn't always love unintended consequences, but I've really learned to appreciate them.
And I'd like to review just how unintended consequences play the part that they do.
Even now, our choices are having unintended effects.
That's not necessarily a bad unintended consequence.
In the ancient world there was a lot of respect for unintended consequences, and there was a very healthy sense of caution, reflected in the Tree of Knowledge, in Pandora's Box, and especially in the myth of Prometheus that's been so important in recent metaphors about technology.
And that again proves that when you're talking about unintended consequences, it's not that easy to know the right lessons to draw.
Now when we come to the period after the Second World War, unintended consequences get even more interesting.
So this means that we need to take a different view of unintended consequences.
The message, then, for me, about unintended consequences is chaos happens; let's make better use of it.
In response to this prescription epidemic, people have been cut off, and this has greatly reduced the street supply The unintended but predictable consequence is an overdose epidemic.
Well, what if I told you that of the six million pregnancies annually in the United States, three million of them are unintended?
And those three million unintended pregnancies account for the vast majority of the more than one million abortions annually performed in the United States.
Happily, the rate of unintended pregnancy has fallen in the last few years by about 10 percent.
A tool like this, coupled with a male contraceptive, could greatly increase the role for men in preventing unintended pregnancy.
Well, I believe that a male pill will help reduce the stubbornly high rates of unintended pregnancy and abortion and allow men to equally participate in contraception.
Do you wake up in the night sometimes, just asking questions about the possibly unintended consequences of your team's brilliance?
We've also found an unintended consequence.
What are the effects, intended and unintended, that you're having?
Technology has made our world increasingly open, and for the most part, that's great, but all of this openness may have unintended consequences.
There's going to be unintended consequences.
This is the unintended consequence of the revolution that started with our four friends.
But we also have to acknowledge that all of these well-intentioned rules, they had the tremendous unintended consequence of making illegal the ways in which we used to build cities. Similarly illegal: at the end of the 19th century, right after the elevator was invented, we built these charming urban buildings, these lovely buildings, all over the world, from Italy to India.
When you do things like that, and we also developed things that take physical photographs that are instantly printable, it will make it easier to create content, but with all of the unimagined, we will also have the unintended, like democratized counterfeiting and ubiquitous illegal possession.
But even worse, it also generated massive negative unintended consequences.
But actually, the unintended consequence of this has been that venture capitalists, investors, real estate developers, have swooped in and they've begun buying up these plots of land right out from under these communities, because they have access to the technologies and the connectivity that makes that possible.
So that's the common thread that connects these examples, the unintended consequences of the tools and the technologies that we make.
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