Rational Accidents: Reckoning with Catastrophic Technologies

by John Downer

"There are limits to what engineers can know, and this means that not every technological failure can be anticipated or avoided. The book explores this observation in the context of technologies that cannot be allowed to fail, e.g., jetliners"--

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026254699X
• ISBN13: 9780262546997
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 344 Pages