Books on systems failures

["Tim Gwinn" <***>]

To all,

I was perusing new book releases on Amazon.com and ran across this one: "Why
Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences" by
Edward Tenner (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679747567/ ).

>From the description it seemed to be an interesting look at how some
attempts at improvement have had significant negative consequences. To me,
it might be useful in presenting a broad spectrum of scenarios where complex
solutions might offer better (and possibly the only) solutions to the
scenarios, and therefore may be helpful in better understanding the nature
of complexity.

Has anyone read this book, or can recommend similar books?

Regards,
Tim