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Slow-tech : manifesto for an overwound world

Title
Slow-tech : manifesto for an overwound world / Andrew Price.
Author
Price, Andrew, 1950-
Publication
London : Atlantic, 2009.

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Description
viii, 280 pages; 25 cm
Summary
The modern world has put its faith in high-tech processes that has left it weakened and ill-equipped to withstand catastrophe. This book argues for a return to simplicity in order to make our world more robust. It demonstrates how the reckless pursuit of efficiency and cost-effectiveness frequently backfires.
Subject
  • Organization
  • Social structure
  • Systems engineering
  • social structure
  • systems engineering
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-267) and index.
Contents
Civilization in crisis -- Corporate collateral -- The lie of the land -- From coast to coast -- Gone fishing -- Aqua vitae -- Robustness counts.
ISBN
  • 9781843547266
  • 1843547260
LCCN
2009379500
OCLC
  • ocn262719842
  • 262719842
  • SCSB-8799947
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library