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    Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology

     
    What happens when technology turns on us?
    2/17/2003
    With the recent space shuttle Columbia tragedy, technological catastrophes have been thrown into high relief. This timely book examines man's use and misuse of technology. It has been recently updated to include information about the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Inviting Disaster is a grim compendium of what happens when our technology fails us. With vivid examples ranging from the 1846 steamboat Sultana explosion to Union Carbide's deadly Bhopal, India, poison gas leaks to the events of 9-11, Chiles details the dangers that can befall mortals who rush into the technological frontier without enough project management, enough safeguards—or perhaps—just enough luck.
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