Ebook: Overcomplicated
Author: Arbesman Samuel
- Tags: Computers and civilization, Technology--Social aspects, Technology -- Social aspects
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
- Language: English
- epub
AWhy did the New York Stock Exchange suspend trading without warning on July 8, 2015? Why did certain Toyota vehicles accelerate uncontrollably against the will of their drivers? Why does the programming inside our airplanes occasionally surprise its creators? After a thorough analysis by the top experts, the answers still elude us. You don't understand the software running your car or your iPhone. But here's a secret: neither do the geniuses at Apple or the Ph. D.'s at Toyota--not perfectly, anyway. No one, not lawyers, doctors, accountants, or policy makers, fully grasps the rules governing your tax return, your retirement account, or your hospital's medical machinery. The same technological advances that have simplified our lives have made the systems governing our lives incomprehensible, unpredictable, and overcomplicated. In Overcomplicated Lucid and energizing, this book is a vital new analysis of the world heralded as "modern" for anyone who wants to live wisely.
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