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Apocalypse How? - Technology and the Threat of Disaster (Hardcover, Main)
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Apocalypse How? - Technology and the Threat of Disaster (Hardcover, Main)
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Loot Price R522
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'Entertaining and insightful' -- Evening Standard 'One of the most
important books of the year... Compelling' Jamie Bartlett, Literary
Review 'Timely' -- New Statesman As the world becomes better
connected and we grow ever more dependent on technology, the risks
to our infrastructure are multiplying. Whether it's a hostile state
striking the national grid (like Russia did with Ukraine in 2016)
or a freak solar storm, our systems have become so interlinked that
if one part goes down the rest topple like dominoes. In this
groundbreaking book, former government minister Oliver Letwin looks
ten years into the future and imagines a UK in which the national
grid has collapsed. Reliant on the internet, automated electric
cars, voice-over IP, GPS, and the internet of things, law and order
would disintegrate. Taking us from high-level government meetings
to elderly citizens waiting in vain for their carers, this book is
a wake up call for why we should question our unshakeable faith in
technology. But it's much more than that: Letwin uses his vast
experience in government to outline how businesses and government
should respond to catastrophic black swan events that seem distant
and implausible - until they occur.
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