Vonnegut, Vincente, and Nye all talk about the human factor. Human error can cause major disasters. Vincente made it clear that human error can occur if someone is not completely qualified for the job they are hired to do. Something can be planned out perfectly but if the person following through with the plan does not fully understand what they are doing, then it is not going to turn out. It seems that Vonnegut also believes that human error is a huge factor in what is wrong with technology. But he also writes about how carelessness can cause human error and in the end cause disaster.
Nye writes about human error in a different way. In Chapter 9 of Technology Matters,
Nye talks about how human intervening with technology can cause more disasters. But Nye is talking about natural disasters. Nye states that “at the risk of unforeseeable accidents increases, some consumers reject innovations not due to the definite knowledge of risk, but rather because of a generalized fear of the unknown” (166). Accidents happen. But some people are so afraid of these unknown accidents that they do things to try to stop things from occurring. But in the end the human factor could make things worse and cause more error or disaster.
Humans do not mean to cause problems or disasters. Unforeseeable things can occur if an unqualified person steps in or if a person tries to stop something from happen, they can actually cause more disaster to occur.
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