Inviting disaster : lessons from the edge of technology : an inside look at catastrophes and why they happen
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : James R Chiles
- ناشر : New York : HarperBusiness
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2001
- شابک / ISBN : 9780066620817
Description
Acknowledgments -- Introduction : On the machine frontier : new technology and old habits -- Shock wave : high tech on the high seas -- Blind spot : baffled and bewildered inside the massive system -- Rush to judgment : when flagship projects run out of time -- Doubtless : testing is such a bother -- Really bad day : panic and triumph on the machine frontier -- Tunnel vision : go away, I'm busy -- Red line running : humans have a limit, too -- Crack in the system : failure starts slow, but it grows -- Healthy fear : alive and alert at danger's edge -- That human touch : how little errors make big accidents -- Robbing the pillar : slacking off with the high-power system -- Machine man : surviving and thriving on the new frontier -- Disasters, calamities, and near misses cited in the book.
"On July 25, 2000, a small piece of debris on the runway at a Paris airport caused a tire to blow out on an Air France Concorde during its takeoff. A heavy slab of rubber that spun off from a tire created a shock wave in a wing tank, which burst open and sent fuel streaming into an engine intake. As flames trailed two hundred feet behind, the aircraft rolled out of control. The crash killed all 109 people on board and 4 more on the ground." "The tragedy of that departing Concorde is just one of many such chain-reaction catastrophes that have occurred as the world has grown more technologically complex and as our machines have become more difficult to control - and more deadly. Now, in an investigation into the causes and often brutal consequences of technological breakdowns, James R. Chiles offers new insights into the increasingly frequent machine disasters that haunt our lives."--BOOK JACKET.
