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December 8, 2011 01:42 pm PST
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Disaster book club: What you need to read to understand the crash of Air France 447
Right now, I'm reading a book about why catastrophic technological failures happen and what, if anything, we can actually do about them. It's called Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow, a Yale sociologist. I've not finished this book yet, but I've gotten far enough into it that I think I get Perrow's basic thesis. (People with [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/kp9evJMOKoo/disaster-book-club-what-you-n.html
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