NSES Content Standard E
Science and Technology: Understandings about science and technology Grades 5-8, page 166 Technological solutions have intended benefits and unintended consequences.
Some consequences can be predicted, others cannot.
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Benchmark 3B The Nature of Technology:
Design and Systems
Grades 6-8, page 51
All technologies have effects other than those intended by the design,
some of which may have been predictable and some not. In either case, these
side effects may turn out to be unacceptable to some of the population
and therefore lead to conflict between groups.