Minding the machines : preventing technological disasters /
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Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Upper Saddle River, NJ :
Prentice Hall PTR,
©2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Technological disasters: an overview
- Natural and human-made disasters
- The year 2000 (Y2K) debacle: an ironic failure of information technology
- Theories of technological disasters
- The root causes of technological disasters
- Three industrial revolutions and beyond
- A matrix of technological disasters
- Twelve exemplary case studies of technological disasters
- Lessons learned from the case studies of technological disasters
- The responsibilities of engineers and scientists
- The role of corporations in the management of technological disasters
- The role of the legal system in technology policy decisions
- Assessing the risks of technology
- Technology decisions and the democratic process.