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How are risks and disasters to be prevented in a high-technology environment? This is a question that has many facets. In this chapter, I shall discuss the aspects related to the history of knowledge and to tacit knowledge in particular. Many companies claim to be learning organizations, without explaining what this means in practice. Here, we argue that reflection on experience – case studies – can...
We can never emulate their meekness, soft servants of durable material: they live without pretension in complicated relays and electrical circuits. Speed, docility are their strength. One asks: “What is 2 × 2?”—“Are you a machine?” They answer or refuse to answer, depending on what you demand. There are, however, other machines as well, more abstract automatons, bolder and more inaccessible, which...
How are risks and disasters prevented in high-technology environments? This is a question that has many facets. In this essay I shall discuss the aspects related to the history of knowledge, and to tacit knowledge in particular.
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