In particular, forced outages or blackouts have enormous consequences on society, one of which is loss of economic surplus.
Since GERD affects approximately 9% of the Canadian population [ 5], impaired productivity has important economic consequences on society if it is not treated effectively.
Bearing this in mind, health-enabling technologies, and smart home technologies in particular, have been identified as potential measures to alleviate the consequences that demographic change will effect on societies.
There have been several boom-and-bust cycles in the use of the wild species resources of the region, the rubber boom in the late nineteenth century being the one with the most pervasive consequences on human societies.
The ability to use metals like bronze and iron, the know-how required for agriculture and the developments that led to long distance seafaring are all examples of technological change that had far reaching consequences on how societies were organized.
However, the use of manipulated images for malicious purposes can have adverse consequences on human society because it is difficult to detect tempered images with the human eyes [1].
Each technology revolution unleashed a series of unintended consequences (most positive, some negative) creating a multiplier effect on society's productivity and standards of living.
Work on that triptych of theatre pieces, Hindenburg, Bikini and Dolly, each of them dealing in a different documentary way with 20th-century technological advances and their consequences for society, as well as on his previous collaboration with Korot, The Cave, had dominated Reich's output for more than a decade from the early 1990s.
