Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences

What Happened to the Roman Apartment Buildings?

It is both a sad and a happy fact of engineering history that disasters have been powerful instruments of change. Designers learn from failure. Industrial society did not invent grand works of engineering, and it was not the first to know design failure. What it did do was develop powerful techniques for learning from…

Jun 11, 2012 1

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