A man's dreams retroactively change reality, and a psychiatrist attempts to harness this power to improve the world, but each improvement creates unintended consequences worse than the problem it solved.
THE canonical unintended-consequences-of-well-meaning-intervention story. Models how attempts to optimize complex systems (economies, ecologies, societies) through single powerful levers produce cascading failures.
Domains: Medicine and Human EnhancementGovernance and Political SystemsEthics and Philosophy of Technology
Scenario Types: Warning / Self-preventing prophecyCautionary tale
Outcomes: Cautionary
Tags: reality-altering-dreamsunintended-consequencesoptimization-failure