Apocalypse How?: Technology and the Threat of Disaster - Softcover

Letwin, Oliver

 
9781786496881: Apocalypse How?: Technology and the Threat of Disaster
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1786496887 ISBN 13: 9781786496881
Verlag: Atlantic Books, 2021

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As 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.

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Sir Oliver Letwin was MP for West Dorset from 1997 to 2019. He has been an academic at Cambridge and Princeton universities, an investment banker and a cabinet minister at the top of the UK Government. For six years he was a member of the National Security Council as the minister with responsibility for the UK's national resilience. He lives in West Dorset and London.

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Verlag
Atlantic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1786496887
ISBN 13 
9781786496881
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
248
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