In his keynote presentation, futurist Joel A. Barker maintained that to build a better and safer future, food technologists need to temper the development of technology with an exploration of its first-, second-, and third-order implications. He emphasized that no longer can humans afford to just wait for “unintended consequences” to show up, as their cost has become too great.
Although his remarks were primarily aimed at technology and food safety, it would be interesting to apply this reasonin…