“New #technologies, whether or not they succeed in solving the problem they were designed to solve, regularly create unanticipated new problems. - #JaredDiamond, #Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

“Contrary to what #JosephTainter and almost everyone else would have expected, it turns out that #societies often fail even to attempt to solve a #problem once it has been perceived.” - #JaredDiamond, #Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed