For example in the Patriot missile story, they try to bring a certain message across to their audience to prove their thesis. Sometimes, issues that the authors attempt to address are raised in the context of technology the are discussing. However, these instances are few and far between and the proposed solutions ,I feel ,can be criticised.
It would seem that the audience that they are trying to capture in this book, I think, are the type of people that pay close attention to media that occur with these type of events. The media seems to play a big role in what many people think are real or truthful events. Myself alone, had no idea that the Patriot missile was so deceiving, but through the deception of the media, I was brought to believe that the missile was a success. And thought as such a technological stud during the Gulf War, the Patriot missile now seems to be quite a dud. But maybe the Patriot missile problem was created by the people who designed it or the.actual user of the system during the war. The point is that maybe we do have too much trust in technology. And when it fails, then there should always be some kind of recourse to actually find out who or what was at fault. So when asked who the audience is again, I would have to say the media. Which in turn is sent to consumers and everyday people like ourselves.
Each chapter in this book seem to have a lot of similarities. They are all just short chapters explaining, again, that the world bases to much trust in the system. But although there are many similarities, there are many different conclusions to draw from each one of these cases. Each having their own conclusions based on each disater or failure. In Nuclear Fuel Flasks, the moral of the story in terms on trust and the whole perspective of the crashes were not that the technology had failed, but more that the public was not given proper access or information to what the actual problem was, so they were forced to draw there own interrpretations of what they actually saw or heard.
