NASA’s language of risk was “technical, impersonal, and bureaucratic”. Some extracts from both the Columbia accident report (CAIB 2003 image 1) and Ocasio’s chapter ‘The Opacity of Risk’, in Organization at the Limit (images 2 & 3; awesome book – I think essential reading). I’m writing up both for upcoming summaries, but for now just… Continue reading NASA and the blinding language of catastrophic risk