Description: Further DetailsTitle: Apocalypse How?Condition: NewSubtitle: Technology and the Threat of DisasterAuthor: Oliver LetwinFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 1786496887EAN: 9781786496881ISBN: 9781786496881Edition: MainPublisher: Atlantic BooksGenre: Science Nature & MathTopic: Law & Politics, Technology & EngineeringRelease Date: 03/04/2021Description: 'Entertaining and insightful' -- Evening Standard'One of the most important books of the year... Compelling' Jamie Bartlett, Literary Review'Timely' -- New StatesmanAs 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 237gRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Apocalypse How?
Title: Apocalypse How?
Subtitle: Technology and the Threat of Disaster
ISBN-10: 1786496887
EAN: 9781786496881
ISBN: 9781786496881
Edition: Main
Release Date: 03/04/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Title: Apocalypse How? : Technology and the Threat of Disaster
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Atlantic Books, The Limited
Publication Year: 2021
Topic: Public Policy / Energy Policy, Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy, General
Item Height: 0.8 in
Genre: Political Science, Technology & Engineering
Item Weight: 8.2 Oz
Author: Oliver Letwin
Item Length: 7.7 in
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
