The tech industry is locked in a breathless sprint to evict the server, automate the junior developer, and govern at the speed of AI. Yet this rush for algorithmic efficiency carries a hidden tax: the catastrophic liability of a codebase that manages itself. This issue is a brutally honest audit of the perimeters left unguarded. The issue features a dissection of how event-driven analytics are weaponized to construct comforting, false narratives, alongside a hard look at the commodification of the human psyche within the attention economy's geopolitical battlefield. In a landscape defined by high-frequency automation, human synthesis isn't a legacy bottleneck waiting to be optimized. It is the only premium feature left. Unattended Consequences is your executive survival guide for the ecosystem the industry carelessly coded into existence.