The Technology Trap: Where Human Error and Malevolence Meet Powerful Technologies - Hardcover

Lloyd J. Dumas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313378886 ISBN 13: 9780313378881

Publisher: Praeger, 2010

Synopsis

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."

About this title

About the Author

Lloyd J. Dumas is a social scientist and engineer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0313378886
• ISBN 13: 9780313378881
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 408