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The Golem at large : what you should know about technology /
The authors demonstrate that the imperfections in technology are related to the uncertainties in science described in the first volume.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Canto classics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: the technological golem; 1 A clean kill?: the role of Patriot in the Gulf War; The Gulf War; War, science, and technology; Was Patriot a success?; What everyone agrees about Patriot; Criteria of success; The indirect criteria of success; Sales, anti-tactical missiles, and Star Wars; The local political role of Patriot; Death and destruction; The direct criteria of success; Interception and diversion; Dudding and damaging; Reaching toward the laboratory.
- 2 The naked launch: assigning blame for the Challenger explosionO-ring joints; The design and testing of the SRB joints; The hydroburst test; Similarity and difference; More testing; Make sure the thing's going to work; Testing for worst scenarios; First flight of the shuttle; 1981-1985 erosion and blow-by become accepted and expected; Going operational; Blow-by; The Challenger launch decision; The pre-launch teleconference; Conclusion; 3 Crash!: nuclear fuel flasks and anti-misting kerosene on trial; Two crashes: a solution to technological ambivalence?; Experiments and demonstrations.
- The crashes reanalysedThe train crash revisited; The plane crash revisited; Imagining what might have been done; Conclusion; 4 The world according to Gold: disputes about the origins of oil; Gold's world; Who is Gold?; Which came first, the fossil or the fuel?; Abiogenic evidence?; A crucial oil well?; Give us a gusher; 5 Tidings of comfort and joy: Seven Wise Men and the science of economics; What is a macroeconomic model made of?; The Seven Wise Men and their ideas; Why do macroeconometric models survive?; (i) Underlying structure versus the behaviour of the economy.
- (Ii) Quantitative prediction(iii) Big forecast errors; (iv) Luck; (v) Trouble with the economy; Discussion; Postscript; 6 The science of the lambs: Chernobyl and the Cumbrian sheepfarmers; Fallout over Britain; The government sounds the 'all clear'; Radioactive lambs; The science of the lambs; The Sellafield factor; Conclusion; 7 ACTing UP: AIDS cures and lay expertise; AIDS: The 'gay plague'; PART I; A vaccine in two years?; The promise of anti-viral drugs; Clinical controlled trials and the FDA; Buyers clubs; Project Inform; The trials of AZT; Equipoise; Patients as body counts.
- Redefining the doctor-patient relationshipCommunity-based trials; PART II; ACT UP; Talking good science; Activists start to win allies; The expertness of lay expertise; Teaching old dogs new tricks; Conclusion: the golem goes to work; Promises delivered; Conclusion; References and Further Reading; Index.