Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of TechnologyPowerful and unforgiving machine systems are taking people to the edge of what they can understand and safely run, making disasters ever more spectacular, frequent, and deadly. Jim Chiles investigates the phenomenon of disasters in our high tech world: why and how they occur, and what can be done to prevent them. The paperback edition contains a special introduction covering the World Trade Center collapse and the crash of Dominican Republic bound