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Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology: An Inside Look at Catastrophes and Why They Happen

By James R. Chiles
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By James R. Chiles
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This "very absorbing look at technological catastrophes and why they happen"
explores systemic breakdowns behind disasters from Chernobyl to the Challenger(Booklist).
Inviting Disaster delves into over fifty of history's worst catastrophes in order to show how increasingly "smart" systems leave us wide open to human tragedy. Weaving a dramatic narrative that explains how breakdowns in these systems result in such disasters as the chain reaction crash of the Air France Concorde and the Bhopal ...

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