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The Technology Trap - Where Human Error and Malevolence Meet Powerful Technologies (Hardcover)
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The Technology Trap - Where Human Error and Malevolence Meet Powerful Technologies (Hardcover)
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In this eye-opening book, author Lloyd J. Dumas argues that our
capacity for developing ever more powerful technologies and the
unavoidable fallibility of both machine and man will lead us
towards a disaster of an unprecedented scale. Most of us assume
that those in charge can always find a way to control any
technology mankind creates, no matter how powerful. But in a world
of imperfect human beings who are prone to error, emotion, and
sometimes to malevolent behavior, this could be an arrogant—and
disastrous—assumption. This book is filled with compelling,
factual stories that illustrate how easy it is for situations to go
terribly wrong, despite our best efforts to prevent any issue. The
author is not advocating an anti-technology "return to nature," nor
intending to highlight the marvels of our high-tech world. Instead,
the objective is to reveal the potential for disaster that
surrounds us in our modern world, elucidate how we arrived at this
predicament, explain the nature and ubiquity of human fallibility,
expose why proposed "solutions" to these Achilles heels cannot
work, and suggest alternatives that could thwart human-induced
technological disasters.
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