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- catalog abstract ""Lloyd J. Dumas's terrifying book chronicles past and potential calamities to shock us out of the complacent belief that we are safe in the hands of technology. Dumas presents what he calls a "calculus of catastrophe," an intelligent and aware evaluation of the disasters we can foresee and prevent, the risks that are too unlikely to worry about, and even the technologies that are too hazardous to warrant their use. Lethal Arrogance sounds an urgent wake-up call to put mind over matter and exercise human judgment over technological dominance."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11546091.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Lloyd J. Dumas's terrifying book chronicles past and potential calamities to shock us out of the complacent belief that we are safe in the hands of technology. Dumas presents what he calls a "calculus of catastrophe," an intelligent and aware evaluation of the disasters we can foresee and prevent, the risks that are too unlikely to worry about, and even the technologies that are too hazardous to warrant their use. Lethal Arrogance sounds an urgent wake-up call to put mind over matter and exercise human judgment over technological dominance."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-364) and index.".
- catalog description "Will twentieth-century incidents become twenty-first-century nightmares? -- Technology, human fallibility and survival -- Terrorism and dangerous technologies -- Controlling dangerous inventories -- Accidents -- Appendix: Major nuclear weapons-related accidents -- Holocaust by accident: inadvertent war with weapons of mass destruction -- The fallibility of individuals: alcohol, drugs and mental illness -- The fallibility of individuals: the nature and conditions of life and work -- Bureaucracy, groupthink and cults -- The failure of technical systems -- Computers and the technological fix -- Understanding and assessing risk -- Preventing disaster.".
- catalog extent "xi, 372 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0312222513 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog subject "303.48/3 21".
- catalog subject "T174.5 .D86 1999".
- catalog subject "Technology Risk assessment.".
- catalog subject "Technology Social aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Will twentieth-century incidents become twenty-first-century nightmares? -- Technology, human fallibility and survival -- Terrorism and dangerous technologies -- Controlling dangerous inventories -- Accidents -- Appendix: Major nuclear weapons-related accidents -- Holocaust by accident: inadvertent war with weapons of mass destruction -- The fallibility of individuals: alcohol, drugs and mental illness -- The fallibility of individuals: the nature and conditions of life and work -- Bureaucracy, groupthink and cults -- The failure of technical systems -- Computers and the technological fix -- Understanding and assessing risk -- Preventing disaster.".
- catalog title "Lethal arrogance : human fallibility and dangerous technologies / Lloyd J. Dumas.".
- catalog type "text".