Unintended Consequences

I love stories and articles like this.

The rest is history. It is estimated that there are more 25 billion microprocessors in use around the world right now, with the number of transistors they contain equal to the amount of raindrops that fall on North America in a year.

One of the better books ever written on this topic is Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (Vintage) by Edward Tenner.