One of the only examples of research that has focused on the consequence of presenting such looming vibrotactile warnings was reported by Ho, Spence, and Gray (2013).
What are the consequences for retailers of presenting consumers with such discounts, and what can retailers do to overcome detrimental effects of incongruent discount terms?
The counter to utopia is dystopia, in which hopes for betterment are replaced by electrifying fears of the ugly consequences of present-day behaviour.
At the base of Wells's great visionary exploit is this rational, ultimately scientific attempt to follow "the drift of the current in spite of the eddies," to tease out the potential future consequences of present conditions — not as they might arise in a few years, or even decades, but millennia hence, epochs hence.
That theologians, engineers, ethicists and bureaucrats spend so much time and effort trying to protect the distant future from the consequences of present folly speaks rather well of our current civilization, or at least that sector of it devoted to clear thinking and rational problem solving.
By loosely coupling an agent based probabilistic land use change model with a hydrologic model, we investigated the consequences of present trends of urban growth to identify potential future hotspots of hydrological change across a watershed in central New Jersey undergoing suburbanization.
Hutchinson was defended in print by provincial attorney general Jonathan Sewall, who claimed that Hutchinson was not actually expressing desired changes in the state of affairs, but ruminating instead on possible consequences of present conditions.
Finally, accurate knowledge of distributional responses to past climate change can provide an excellent calibration for predictions of the consequences of present-day climate change [11] [12], including the mode and tempo of recolonization of newly available habitats [13].
Adaptive management emphasizes the importance of accounting for the future consequences of present actions.
