ABSTRACT
But as Edward Tenner eloquently explains in his often entertaining book, Why Things Bite Back: New Technology and the Revenge Effect (Fourth Estate, 1996), each of these advances has spawned a ‘revenge effect’ in which the solution to one problem leads to other, unforeseen, problems. The Princeton University historian, however, comes out, on balance, in favour of technology, sending an important message to the neo-Luddites and environmentalists who revel in publicizing the unfortunate side-effects of progress.
