When you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash

When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

Paul Virilio

Thanks, Ben Terrett for introducing me to this perspective. And congratulations to Ben for becoming the first Royal for Industry for Service Design. Read more about that here.