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1 online resource (viii, 248 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- People in the story -- Prologue -- 1: Could it happen? -- 2: The Cabinet Office -- 3: The social impact of black-swan events -- 4: Out in the darkness -- 5: Fragility and resilience -- 6: A difficult choice -- 7: Myths and realities -- 8: For whom the bell tolls -- 9: The global perspective -- Index |
| Summary |
As the world becomes better connected and we grow ever more dependent on technology, the risks to our infrastructure are multiplying. Whether it's a hostile state striking the national grid (like Russia did with Ukraine in 2016) or a freak solar storm, our systems have become so interlinked that if one part goes down the rest topple like dominoes. In this groundbreaking book, former government minister Oliver Letwin looks ten years into the future and imagines a UK in which the national grid has collapsed. Reliant on the internet, automated electric cars, voice-over IP, GPS, and the internet of things, law and order would disintegrate. Taking us from high-level government meetings to elderly citizens waiting in vain for their carers, this book is a wake up call for why we should question our unshakeable faith in technology. But it's much more than that: Letwin uses his vast experience in government to outline how businesses and government should respond to catastrophic black swan events that seem distant and implausible - until they occur. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Technology -- Social aspects.
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Technological innovations -- Forecasting.
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Emergency management.
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Technology and civilization.
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Emergency management. |
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Technological innovations -- Forecasting. |
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects. |
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Technology and civilization. |
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Technology -- Social aspects. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Letwin, Oliver. Apocalypse How? : Technology and the Threat of Disaster. London : Atlantic Books, ©2020 |
| ISBN |
9781786496898 (electronic bk.) |
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1786496895 (electronic bk.) |
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9781786496867 (hardcover) |
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1786496860 (hardcover) |
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