New laws and new government policies often have unanticipated consequences when those subject to these laws and policies react to the changed incentives.
The Pennsylvania countryside has another unanticipated advantage: because it is more conductive to getting things done than distracting big cities, bands themselves have descended on it, too.
Let me describe an example of such a completely unanticipated challenge and opportunity that profoundly impacted the direction of my career and my entire life.
" We live today in a perpetual superbloom—not of flowers but of messages, " he writes in " Superbloom" , which examines the unanticipated impacts of communications technologies.