Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Combining captivating storytelling with eye-opening findings, Inviting Disaster delves inside some 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 to the meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, Chiles vividly demonstrates how the battle between man and machine may be escalating beyond manageable limits -- and why we all have a stake in its outcome. Included in this edition is a special introduction providing a behind-the-scenes look at the World Trade Center catastrophe. Combining firsthand accounts of employees' escapes with an in-depth look at the structural reasons behind the towers' collapse, Chiles addresses the question, Were the towers "two tall heroes" or structures with a fatal flaw?

Shelfari edited the contributors of Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology Friday, July 31 2009.

• Added a contributor: James R. Chiles: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Beginning on September 11,2001, and for the following three months, it seemed terrorists were about to turn the full might of our own mechanical wonders against us.