[117505] in Cypherpunks
RE: why bad things happen to good systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Sat Sep 4 12:07:11 1999
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Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 08:40:15 -0700
To: jbugden@ALIS.COM, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
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Reply-To: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
At 09:45 AM 9/2/99 -0400, jbugden@ALIS.COM wrote:
>An updated version of the Normal Accidents is to be published this month.
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691004129/qid=936279499/sr=1-2/002-1
>507349-5963427
>
>Deborah A. Stone, Technology Review
>"[Perrow's] research undermines promises that `better management' and `more
>operator training' can eliminate catastrophic accidents. In doing so, he
>challenges us to ponder what could happen to justice, community, liberty,
>and hope in a society where such events are normal."
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has
deposed.
--Steve
