Edward Tenner

unintended consequences / *The Efficiency Paradox*

Technology historian and writer, formerly a visiting scholar at Princeton and the Smithsonian Institution. He built his reputation with *Why Things Bite Back* (1996), arguing that technologies create 'revenge effects' opposite to their intended purpose. His follow-up, *The Efficiency Paradox*, challenges the assumption that algorithmic optimisation improves outcomes, warning that over-reliance on efficiency metrics erodes serendipity and human judgement.