Have we anticipated the changes they might bring?
Have we anticipated everything?
In his ruling, the judge made no explicit reference to that case.He did, however, argue that, although Mr Abe was aware of the danger of HIV infection, he could not have anticipated the consequences of the disease, because so little was known about AIDS.
According to the Muslim participants, the mothers-to-be are to blame for their unintended pregnancies; they should have anticipated the consequences before acting upon their impulses or desires.
More importantly, he anticipated the consequences all this would have on the nature of social interaction, describing distributed online communities that work just as Facebook and Twitter do today.Technology Quarterly More than just digital quilting A classic invention Return of the human computers Indolent or aggressive?
As we have now painfully learned, many observers could see some of these elements, but almost no one saw them all or anticipated the consequences of a drop in housing prices on the entire economic system.
"We have to anticipate the unintended consequences," he told me.
"We're also anticipating the consequences of readjustments of the hall," said Reynold Levy, president of Lincoln Center.
We hadn't anticipated the next surprise.
Some speakers were alarmed at the revelations in my new book that the Arabists of the Foreign Office and MI6 appear not to have adequately anticipated the invasion's consequences - the emergence of nationalist resistance, the electoral victory of Islamist parties, and the rejection by most Iraqis of an open-ended occupation.
But could we anticipate the costs or ever truly predict the consequences?
