Minding the machines preventing technological disasters
Praise from readers "A superb book on how to prevent and minimize technological disasters." —P. Roy Vagelos, M.D. Retired Chairman and CEO, Merck & Co., Inc. "If you want to know how serious technological disasters can be, how poorly we tend to handle them, and what can be done to...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Upper Saddle River, NJ :
Prentice Hall PTR
c2002.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009626945806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Technological disasters: an overview
- Natural and human-made disasters
- The year 2000 (Y2K) debacle: an ironic failure of information technology
- Theories of technological disasters
- The root causes of technological disasters
- Three industrial revolutions and beyond
- A matrix of technological disasters
- Twelve exemplary case studies of technological disasters
- Lessons learned from the case studies of technological disasters
- The responsibilities of engineers and scientists
- The role of corporations in the management of technological disasters
- The role of the legal system in technology policy decisions
- Assessing the risks of technology
- Technology decisions and the democratic process.
