This is an excellent read and extremely relevant to today, given the pandemic we’re experiencing. I was pointed to this book by Zeynep Turfecki as a way to think about ‘systems’, how things are related, and how failures can cascade. The original book is from 1984, and as I was reading I thought, ‘what about Bhopal and Chernobyl?’ Then I get to the afterword, and there it is! This is definitely a book that retrospective helps provide context. The Y2K treatment in the afterword is good. It is ironic that the dot-com crash would be the event that caused a recession, not Y2K. The book is somewhat dense, with lots of acronyms. I read on Hoopla and it was not easy to reference the acronym helper at the end of the book. I’d love to see this book revisited again brining in the 737Max failure as well as overall Coronavirus response. I would have liked to have kept better notes as I read, but was reading and discussing with a friend. The book can be terrifying at times, and if you have fears of nuclear war, airplane crashes, or other disasters, I would not read this book. I thoroughly enjoyed this and learned a lot from it.