Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies: Difference between revisions

===When Kramer hears about this ...===

So far, so hoopy; but here’s the rub: we can make our systems less complex and ''reduce'' [[tight coupling]] by careful design, functional redundancy and iterative improvement — [[air crash|air transport has become progressively safer]] as it has developed: it has learned from each accident — but, as long as it is a complex system with the scope for complex interaction, ''we cannot eliminate [[system accident]]s altogether''. They are, as coders like to joke, a feature, not a bug.