Samuel Arbesman: 2 books
Overcomplicated
Technology at the Limits of Comprehension
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Why 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 Half-Life of Facts
Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
New insights from the science of science
Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing.
Samuel...