by david allan van nostrand | Jan 17, 2022 | Human Behavior, Items in the News, Organizational Behavior, Unintended Consequences
Florida is one the busiest vacation destination states in the USA. Most come for the ocean, beaches and warm, sunny days. Many of the more than 130 million tourists who come to Florida are golfers. Combine these numbers with the many year-round residents who golf and...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 13, 2021 | Items in the News, Unintended Consequences
One cold night in the desert an Arab was warm inside his one man tent, asleep. His camel gently poked his nose in and said it was so cold outside, perhaps his owner would let him get just his nose warm. Groggy and not seeing the harm in that, the Arab said okay...
by david allan van nostrand | Aug 23, 2021 | Items in the News, Unintended Consequences
People in a hurry to solve a problem rarely take the time to look around the corner and down the road to consider what other things may be affected by their solutions. Take for example the installation of all those plexiglass shields we see in stores today. They were...
by david allan van nostrand | Jul 19, 2021 | Human Behavior, Unintended Consequences
A woman named Liza asks a man named Henry to fetch a pail of water. Henry says he cannot because there’s a hole in the bucket. Liza, a practical woman, tells Henry to fix the hole. Henry asks what he is supposed to fix the hole with. Please click on the link here to...
by david allan van nostrand | Mar 22, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Unintended Consequences
Robots are machines that respond automatically and unthinkingly to the commands of others. They perform routine mechanical tasks that have been pre-programmed by humans. They are not sentient beings and are not capable of conscious thought. Robots are best at...
by david allan van nostrand | Oct 19, 2020 | Misinformation traps, Organizational Behavior, Unintended Consequences
When interviewing study subjects, researchers hear many of the same themes and comments repeated, as you can easily imagine. No one liked how cassette tapes snarled, for example, and everyone hates long wait times. The temptation for impatient researchers and study...
