💥 Systems Failure

Examinations of how interconnected systems break down catastrophically, often revealing that the seeds of collapse were planted long before anyone noticed the cracks.

Normal Accidents

by Charles Perrow • 1984

The safer we try to make a system, the more unknowable its failure modes become.

4.05

704

🏭 Sociotechnical Systems ⛓️‍💥 Systemic Failure 🪜 Cascading Failures

Normal Accidents 91%

The safer we try to make a system, the more unknowable its failure modes become.

by Charles Perrow 1984

4.05

704 ratings

🏭 Sociotechnical Systems ⛓️‍💥 Systemic Failure 🪜 Cascading Failures

Inviting Disaster

by James R. Chiles • 2001

Catastrophe is never one mistake. It's small failures linking up while everyone looks elsewhere.

4.03

565

🧨 Technological Disasters 🏗️ Engineering Failures 🔗 System Failures

Inviting Disaster 90%

Catastrophe is never one mistake. It's small failures linking up while everyone looks elsewhere.

by James R. Chiles 2001

4.03

565 ratings

🧨 Technological Disasters 🏗️ Engineering Failures 🔗 System Failures

Success through Failure

by Henry Petroski • 2006

Every triumph contains the seed of its collapse; the art of design is spotting it early.

3.60

201

🧱 Engineering Failures 💡 Learning From Failure 📐 Design Theory

Success through Failure 89%

Every triumph contains the seed of its collapse; the art of design is spotting it early.

by Henry Petroski 2006

3.60

201 ratings

🧱 Engineering Failures 💡 Learning From Failure 📐 Design Theory

Drift into Failure

by Sidney Dekker • 2011

Hunting the broken part misses real failure: slow, rational erosion inside everyday decisions.

4.01

343

🦺 Safety Science ⚠️ Risk Normalization 🕸️ Systemic Risk

Drift into Failure 89%

Hunting the broken part misses real failure: slow, rational erosion inside everyday decisions.

by Sidney Dekker 2011

4.01

343 ratings

🦺 Safety Science ⚠️ Risk Normalization 🕸️ Systemic Risk

Lights Out

by Ted Koppel • 2015

A grid cyberattack could kill most Americans in a year; no agency has a plan.

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⚡ Critical Infrastructure 🔌 Electrical Grid 💥 EMP Threat

Lights Out 89%

A grid cyberattack could kill most Americans in a year; no agency has a plan.

by Ted Koppel 2015

3.71

6k+ ratings

⚡ Critical Infrastructure 🔌 Electrical Grid 💥 EMP Threat

The Unaccountability Machine

by Dan Davies • 2024

Why nobody is responsible: the machinery that absorbs blame and starves institutions of feedback.

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1k+

🏢 Corporate Governance 🔄 Systems Thinking 🏚️ Organizational Dysfunction

The Unaccountability Machine 88%

Why nobody is responsible: the machinery that absorbs blame and starves institutions of feedback.

by Dan Davies 2024

3.74

1k+ ratings

🏢 Corporate Governance 🔄 Systems Thinking 🏚️ Organizational Dysfunction

The Challenger Launch Decision

by Diane Vaughan • 1997

The chain of small failures that precedes every disaster, and where to break it.

4.08

459

🔥 Organizational Failure ⚡ Crisis Leadership 📉 Risk Normalization

The Challenger Launch Decision 88%

The chain of small failures that precedes every disaster, and where to break it.

by Diane Vaughan 1997

4.08

459 ratings

🔥 Organizational Failure ⚡ Crisis Leadership 📉 Risk Normalization

The Logic of Failure

by Dietrich Dörner • 1996

Human minds fail predictably when facing complexity. The patterns are knowable and fixable.

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1k+

🌀 Complex Systems 🔗 Systems Thinking 🧠 Cognitive Biases

The Logic of Failure 88%

Human minds fail predictably when facing complexity. The patterns are knowable and fixable.

by Dietrich Dörner 1996

3.91

1k+ ratings

🌀 Complex Systems 🔗 Systems Thinking 🧠 Cognitive Biases

Blackout

by Marc Elsberg • 2012

A former hacker traces Europe's blackout to a cyberattack hidden inside its own smart meters.

4.01

18k+

🖥️ Techno-Thriller ⚡ Power Grid Collapse 💻 Hacker Protagonist

Blackout 88%

A former hacker traces Europe's blackout to a cyberattack hidden inside its own smart meters.

by Marc Elsberg 2012

4.01

18k+ ratings

🖥️ Techno-Thriller ⚡ Power Grid Collapse 💻 Hacker Protagonist

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

by Richard P. Feynman • 1988

A glass of ice water and an O-ring: how Feynman exposed NASA's fatal blind spot.

4.19

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🏛️ Organizational Failure ⚠️ Normalization Of Deviance 🚀 Space Exploration

What Do You Care What Other People Think? Summary

What Do You Care What Other People Think? 88%

A glass of ice water and an O-ring: how Feynman exposed NASA's fatal blind spot.

by Richard P. Feynman 1988

4.19

31k+ ratings

🏛️ Organizational Failure ⚠️ Normalization Of Deviance 🚀 Space Exploration

To Engineer Is Human

by Henry Petroski • 1985

Every disaster is a lesson plan. Bridges stay up because engineers study the ones that fell.

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3k+

🏗️ Structural Engineering 💡 Design Thinking 🔍 Failure Analysis

To Engineer Is Human 88%

Every disaster is a lesson plan. Bridges stay up because engineers study the ones that fell.

by Henry Petroski 1985

3.69

3k+ ratings

🏗️ Structural Engineering 💡 Design Thinking 🔍 Failure Analysis

Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing

by Petroski • 1996

Paper clips, fax machines, bridges: what their shortcomings reveal about the logic of engineering.

3.75

351

🛠️ Engineering Design 🏛️ History Of Technology 💥 Failure Analysis

Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing Summary

Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing 87%

Paper clips, fax machines, bridges: what their shortcomings reveal about the logic of engineering.

by Petroski 1996

3.75

351 ratings

🛠️ Engineering Design 🏛️ History Of Technology 💥 Failure Analysis

To Forgive Design

by Henry Petroski • 2012

The safest bridges and planes are designed by studying the ones that fell down.

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217

🏗️ Structural Engineering 🔍 Forensic Engineering 💭 Design Philosophy

To Forgive Design 87%

The safest bridges and planes are designed by studying the ones that fell down.

by Henry Petroski 2012

3.53

217 ratings

🏗️ Structural Engineering 🔍 Forensic Engineering 💭 Design Philosophy

Anti-Tech Revolution

by Theodore John Kaczynski • 2016

The technological world system is a self-driving machine no one steers and nothing stops.

3.95

630

🏕️ Anarcho-Primitivism ✊ Revolutionary Theory 🔄 Systems Thinking

Anti-Tech Revolution 87%

The technological world system is a self-driving machine no one steers and nothing stops.

by Theodore John Kaczynski 2016

3.95

630 ratings

🏕️ Anarcho-Primitivism ✊ Revolutionary Theory 🔄 Systems Thinking

The Premonition

by Michael Lewis • 2021

A handful of outsiders saw COVID-19 coming and built the warning system the CDC refused to.

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43k+

🏥 Public Health 🦠 Epidemiology 🚨 Pandemic Response

The Premonition 87%

A handful of outsiders saw COVID-19 coming and built the warning system the CDC refused to.

by Michael Lewis 2021

4.32

43k+ ratings

🏥 Public Health 🦠 Epidemiology 🚨 Pandemic Response

Everyday Chaos

by David Weinberger • 2019

A medical AI diagnoses illness but can't explain how. The age of demanding explanations is over.

3.78

202

🔬 Complexity Science 🔄 Systems Thinking 🤖 Machine Learning

Everyday Chaos 87%

A medical AI diagnoses illness but can't explain how. The age of demanding explanations is over.

by David Weinberger 2019

3.78

202 ratings

🔬 Complexity Science 🔄 Systems Thinking 🤖 Machine Learning

Release It!

by Michael T. Nygard • 2007

QA says your software is ready. Production disagrees. The patterns that close the gap.

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3k+

🏗️ Software Architecture 🌐 Distributed Systems 🛡️ Fault Tolerance

Release It! 87%

QA says your software is ready. Production disagrees. The patterns that close the gap.

by Michael T. Nygard 2007

4.25

3k+ ratings

🏗️ Software Architecture 🌐 Distributed Systems 🛡️ Fault Tolerance

A Demon of Our Own Design

by Richard Bookstaber • 2007

Why safer economies create more volatile markets: a hidden design flaw that turns progress to peril.

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1k+

🏦 Financial Markets ⚠️ Systemic Risk 🔧 Financial Engineering

A Demon of Our Own Design 87%

Why safer economies create more volatile markets: a hidden design flaw that turns progress to peril.

by Richard Bookstaber 2007

3.92

1k+ ratings

🏦 Financial Markets ⚠️ Systemic Risk 🔧 Financial Engineering

Ubiquity

by Mark Buchanan • 2000

One grain of sand explains why markets crash, species vanish, and empires fall.

3.90

716

🧬 Complexity Science 🔗 Systems Theory 📊 Power Laws

Ubiquity 87%

One grain of sand explains why markets crash, species vanish, and empires fall.

by Mark Buchanan 2000

3.90

716 ratings

🧬 Complexity Science 🔗 Systems Theory 📊 Power Laws

The Systems Bible

by John Gall • 1977

Every system malfunctions and fights its own purpose. The counterintuitive guide to surviving them.

3.99

1k+

🧭 Systems Theory 🏢 Organizational Behavior 🦋 Unintended Consequences

The Systems Bible 87%

Every system malfunctions and fights its own purpose. The counterintuitive guide to surviving them.

by John Gall 1977

3.99

1k+ ratings

🧭 Systems Theory 🏢 Organizational Behavior 🦋 Unintended Consequences

Command and Control

by Eric Schlosser • 2013

One dropped socket in an Arkansas missile silo exposes seventy years of nuclear near-disasters.

4.27

15k+

🧪 Nuclear History 🥶 Cold War Era 💥 Technological Disaster

Command and Control 87%

One dropped socket in an Arkansas missile silo exposes seventy years of nuclear near-disasters.

by Eric Schlosser 2013

4.27

15k+ ratings

🧪 Nuclear History 🥶 Cold War Era 💥 Technological Disaster

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

by Eliezer Yudkowsky • 2025

Superhuman AI kills without malice. Its goals turn our atoms into raw material, not our future.

3.92

7k+

🛡️ Ai Safety ⚠️ Existential Risk 🏁 Technology Arms Races

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Summary

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies 87%

Superhuman AI kills without malice. Its goals turn our atoms into raw material, not our future.

by Eliezer Yudkowsky 2025

3.92

7k+ ratings

🛡️ Ai Safety ⚠️ Existential Risk 🏁 Technology Arms Races

Computer Power and Human Reason

by Joseph Weizenbaum • 1976

The computer's greatest danger isn't outthinking us; it's that we'll remake ourselves in its image.

4.31

294

🦾 Philosophy Of Technology 🤖 Ai Criticism ⚖️ Computer Ethics

Computer Power and Human Reason 87%

The computer's greatest danger isn't outthinking us; it's that we'll remake ourselves in its image.

by Joseph Weizenbaum 1976

4.31

294 ratings

🦾 Philosophy Of Technology 🤖 Ai Criticism ⚖️ Computer Ethics

Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters

by Jared Knott • 2020

History turns on unopened letters, wrong turns, and badly designed ballots, not grand strategy.

4.01

2k+

📖 Narrative History ⚠️ Cautionary History 🔗 Unintended Consequences

Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters 87%

History turns on unopened letters, wrong turns, and badly designed ballots, not grand strategy.

by Jared Knott 2020

4.01

2k+ ratings

📖 Narrative History ⚠️ Cautionary History 🔗 Unintended Consequences

Industrial Society and Its Future

by Ted Kaczynski • 2024

Modern comfort is a trap that erases human purpose. The only escape: abolishing technology.

3.88

203

📜 Anarcho-Primitivism ⚙️ Critique Of Technology 🌍 Radical Environmentalism

Industrial Society and Its Future Summary

Industrial Society and Its Future 87%

Modern comfort is a trap that erases human purpose. The only escape: abolishing technology.

by Ted Kaczynski 2024

3.88

203 ratings

📜 Anarcho-Primitivism ⚙️ Critique Of Technology 🌍 Radical Environmentalism

Zed

by Joanna Kavenna • 2019

A murder the system failed to predict becomes a crack that brings the surveillance state down.

3.12

1k+

🤖 Algorithmic Dystopia 👁️ Predictive Surveillance 💾 Hacker Resistance

Zed 87%

A murder the system failed to predict becomes a crack that brings the surveillance state down.

by Joanna Kavenna 2019

3.12

1k+ ratings

🤖 Algorithmic Dystopia 👁️ Predictive Surveillance 💾 Hacker Resistance

To Save Everything, Click Here

by Evgeny Morozov • 2013

Silicon Valley promised a world without friction. Friction, mess, and dissent are what keep us free.

3.67

1k+

💻 Tech Criticism 🗳️ Internet Politics ⚖️ Algorithms And Bias

To Save Everything, Click Here 87%

Silicon Valley promised a world without friction. Friction, mess, and dissent are what keep us free.

by Evgeny Morozov 2013

3.67

1k+ ratings

💻 Tech Criticism 🗳️ Internet Politics ⚖️ Algorithms And Bias

Rage Inside the Machine

by Robert Elliott Smith • 2019

Algorithms reduce reality to neat categories. Prejudice is not a bug but the predictable exhaust.

3.97

145

🧩 Algorithmic Bias 🤖 AI Ethics 💻 Tech Criticism

Rage Inside the Machine 87%

Algorithms reduce reality to neat categories. Prejudice is not a bug but the predictable exhaust.

by Robert Elliott Smith 2019

3.97

145 ratings

🧩 Algorithmic Bias 🤖 AI Ethics 💻 Tech Criticism

Enshittification

by Cory Doctorow • 2025

Big Tech didn't turn evil; competition, regulation, and worker power simply stopped holding it back.

4.06

13k+

🏚️ Platform Decay 🏛️ Digital Monopoly 📱 Gig Economy

Enshittification 87%

Big Tech didn't turn evil; competition, regulation, and worker power simply stopped holding it back.

by Cory Doctorow 2025

4.06

13k+ ratings

🏚️ Platform Decay 🏛️ Digital Monopoly 📱 Gig Economy

The Sheep Look Up

by John Brunner • 2003

America is dying of its own poison, and the people who warned us are being hunted.

3.91

6k+

☣️ Ecological Dystopia 🗣️ Reluctant Prophet 🧩 Fragmented Narrative

The Sheep Look Up 86%

America is dying of its own poison, and the people who warned us are being hunted.

by John Brunner 2003

3.91

6k+ ratings

☣️ Ecological Dystopia 🗣️ Reluctant Prophet 🧩 Fragmented Narrative

Truth, Lies, and O-Rings

by Allan J. McDonald • 2009

One engineer's refusal to stay silent exposed how schedule pressure killed Challenger's crew.

4.02

803

🤝 Engineering Ethics 🚀 Space Disasters 📢 Whistleblowing

Truth, Lies, and O-Rings 86%

One engineer's refusal to stay silent exposed how schedule pressure killed Challenger's crew.

by Allan J. McDonald 2009

4.02

803 ratings

🤝 Engineering Ethics 🚀 Space Disasters 📢 Whistleblowing

The AI Con

by Emily M. Bender • 2025

ChatGPT isn't thinking, the doom-sayers aren't helping, and the real AI harms are already here.

3.69

2k+

🤖 Ai Criticism 🧮 Algorithmic Bias 🔍 Technology Criticism

The AI Con 86%

ChatGPT isn't thinking, the doom-sayers aren't helping, and the real AI harms are already here.

by Emily M. Bender 2025

3.69

2k+ ratings

🤖 Ai Criticism 🧮 Algorithmic Bias 🔍 Technology Criticism

Uncontrolled Spread

by Scott Gottlieb • 2021

Every part of America's pandemic defense was designed for a different war.

4.06

1k+

🏥 Public Health Policy 🛡️ Pandemic Preparedness 🏛️ Institutional Failure

Uncontrolled Spread 86%

Every part of America's pandemic defense was designed for a different war.

by Scott Gottlieb 2021

4.06

1k+ ratings

🏥 Public Health Policy 🛡️ Pandemic Preparedness 🏛️ Institutional Failure

Site Reliability Engineering

by Betsy Beyer • 2016

Google's operations playbook: why perfect uptime is the wrong target, and what to build instead.

4.21

3k+

🧰 Site Reliability 🔄 Devops Culture 🌐 Distributed Systems

Site Reliability Engineering 86%

Google's operations playbook: why perfect uptime is the wrong target, and what to build instead.

by Betsy Beyer 2016

4.21

3k+ ratings

🧰 Site Reliability 🔄 Devops Culture 🌐 Distributed Systems

Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep

by Paul Tremblay • 2026

Her mother's tech firm pays her to remotely pilot a dead man's body across America.

3.56

893

🧟 Body Horror 🤖 Rogue Ai 💔 Mother Wound

Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep Summary

Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep 86%

Her mother's tech firm pays her to remotely pilot a dead man's body across America.

by Paul Tremblay 2026

3.56

893 ratings

🧟 Body Horror 🤖 Rogue Ai 💔 Mother Wound

How Everything Can Collapse

by Pablo Servigne • 2015

Collapse follows a recognizable script. Industrial civilization is already past the first scene.

4.16

1k+

📉 Collapsology 🏚️ Civilizational Collapse 🔗 Systems Thinking

How Everything Can Collapse 86%

Collapse follows a recognizable script. Industrial civilization is already past the first scene.

by Pablo Servigne 2015

4.16

1k+ ratings

📉 Collapsology 🏚️ Civilizational Collapse 🔗 Systems Thinking

Invention and Innovation

by Vaclav Smil • 2023

Moore's Law is an outlier. Everywhere else, innovation crawls, stumbles, or backfires.

3.84

1k+

🛠️ History Of Technology 🔍 Innovation Myths ⚠️ Unintended Consequences

Invention and Innovation 86%

Moore's Law is an outlier. Everywhere else, innovation crawls, stumbles, or backfires.

by Vaclav Smil 2023

3.84

1k+ ratings

🛠️ History Of Technology 🔍 Innovation Myths ⚠️ Unintended Consequences

The Mandibles

by Lionel Shriver • 2016

The Mandibles waited decades for an inheritance that disappears the night America defaults.

3.71

12k+

🏚️ Economic Collapse 💸 Failed Inheritance 👁️ Surveillance State

The Mandibles 86%

The Mandibles waited decades for an inheritance that disappears the night America defaults.

by Lionel Shriver 2016

3.71

12k+ ratings

🏚️ Economic Collapse 💸 Failed Inheritance 👁️ Surveillance State

Systems Thinking For Social Change

by David Peter Stroh • 2015

Why well-meaning solutions backfire, and where to intervene in a system so change actually lasts.

3.79

852

🧠 Systems Thinking 🌍 Social Change ⚠️ Unintended Consequences

Systems Thinking For Social Change Summary

Systems Thinking For Social Change 86%

Why well-meaning solutions backfire, and where to intervene in a system so change actually lasts.

by David Peter Stroh 2015

3.79

852 ratings

🧠 Systems Thinking 🌍 Social Change ⚠️ Unintended Consequences

Losing the Signal

by Jacquie McNish • 2015

BlackBerry invented mobile email, built an $80 billion empire. The iPhone killed it in four years.

3.98

5k+

📉 Corporate Collapse 🔀 Disruptive Innovation 💻 Tech Industry

Losing the Signal 86%

BlackBerry invented mobile email, built an $80 billion empire. The iPhone killed it in four years.

by Jacquie McNish 2015

3.98

5k+ ratings

📉 Corporate Collapse 🔀 Disruptive Innovation 💻 Tech Industry

System Error

by Rob Reich • 2021

Tech companies optimized for growth and broke democracy. The cure is political, not digital.

3.82

608

⚖️ Algorithmic Bias 🔒 Data Privacy 🤖 Automation And Labor

System Error 86%

Tech companies optimized for growth and broke democracy. The cure is political, not digital.

by Rob Reich 2021

3.82

608 ratings

⚖️ Algorithmic Bias 🔒 Data Privacy 🤖 Automation And Labor

Debugging

by David J. Agans • 2002

Learn to debug like a detective: reproduce the crime, divide the scene, and never guess.

4.26

509

🐛 Debugging 🎯 Root Cause Analysis ⚙️ Engineering Mindset

Debugging 86%

Learn to debug like a detective: reproduce the crime, divide the scene, and never guess.

by David J. Agans 2002

4.26

509 ratings

🐛 Debugging 🎯 Root Cause Analysis ⚙️ Engineering Mindset

The Efficiency Paradox

by Edward Tenner • 2018

How efficiency backfires: eroding skill, narrowing science, and engineering luck out of life.

3.27

311

🔍 Efficiency Critique 🏪 Platform Economy 🧭 Digital Deskilling

The Efficiency Paradox 86%

How efficiency backfires: eroding skill, narrowing science, and engineering luck out of life.

by Edward Tenner 2018

3.27

311 ratings

🔍 Efficiency Critique 🏪 Platform Economy 🧭 Digital Deskilling

An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

by Gerald M. Weinberg • 1975

Stability is not a property of a system but a contract it negotiates with its environment.

3.94

671

🧩 Systems Theory 🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🤖 Cybernetics

An Introduction to General Systems Thinking Summary

An Introduction to General Systems Thinking 86%

Stability is not a property of a system but a contract it negotiates with its environment.

by Gerald M. Weinberg 1975

3.94

671 ratings

🧩 Systems Theory 🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🤖 Cybernetics

Observability Engineering

by Charity Majors • 2022

Your dashboards only know yesterday's failures. Here's how to debug the ones nobody predicted.

3.72

319

🔍 Observability 🏗️ Site Reliability Engineering 🌐 Distributed Systems

Observability Engineering 86%

Your dashboards only know yesterday's failures. Here's how to debug the ones nobody predicted.

by Charity Majors 2022

3.72

319 ratings

🔍 Observability 🏗️ Site Reliability Engineering 🌐 Distributed Systems

Humble Pi

by Matt Parker • 2019

Math errors have sunk ships and crashed economies. A mathematician-comedian explains why.

4.10

23k+

Humble Pi 86%

Math errors have sunk ships and crashed economies. A mathematician-comedian explains why.

by Matt Parker 2019

4.10

23k+ ratings

The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

by Sidney Dekker • 2002

A mistake reveals nothing about a worker and everything about the system that shaped their choices.

4.22

625

🦺 Safety Management 🧠 Human Factors 🔍 Accident Investigation

The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' Summary

The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' 86%

A mistake reveals nothing about a worker and everything about the system that shaped their choices.

by Sidney Dekker 2002

4.22

625 ratings

🦺 Safety Management 🧠 Human Factors 🔍 Accident Investigation

What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night

by John Brockman • 2014

Cognitive traps. Fragile networks. Captured watchdogs. The real fears of a hundred scientists.

3.45

1k+

🧨 Existential Risk 🧠 Cognitive Biases ⚠️ Risk Perception

What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night Summary

What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night 86%

Cognitive traps. Fragile networks. Captured watchdogs. The real fears of a hundred scientists.

by John Brockman 2014

3.45

1k+ ratings

🧨 Existential Risk 🧠 Cognitive Biases ⚠️ Risk Perception

As Our World Ends

by Jack Hunt • 2020

A fractured family navigates a lawless America after a cyberattack, racing to rescue their daughter.

4.18

1k+

🖥️ Grid-Down Survival 💔 Broken Family Bonds 👥 Ragtag Survivors

As Our World Ends 86%

A fractured family navigates a lawless America after a cyberattack, racing to rescue their daughter.

by Jack Hunt 2020

4.18

1k+ ratings

🖥️ Grid-Down Survival 💔 Broken Family Bonds 👥 Ragtag Survivors

Flying Blind

by Peter Robison • 2021

Boeing swapped safety for stock price, and two crashes later, 346 were dead.

4.17

4k+

🏛️ Corporate Accountability 💥 Aviation Disasters ⚖️ Regulatory Capture

Flying Blind 86%

Boeing swapped safety for stock price, and two crashes later, 346 were dead.

by Peter Robison 2021

4.17

4k+ ratings

🏛️ Corporate Accountability 💥 Aviation Disasters ⚖️ Regulatory Capture

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