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Why the Internet Makes It Impossible to Stop Giant Wall Street Losses
Credit: Skip Sterling
In 1984, Yale sociologist Charles Perrow published his classic book, Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. The odd term, "normal accident," Perrow wrote, is meant to signal that, given a system's characteristics, multiple and unexpected interactions of failure are inevitable.
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