blunder-damage

Updated: May 21, 2025

But today, everything we depend upon is centralized, and vulnerable to blunder-damage. Even our food remember that poisoned soft-drink horror in Chicago, in 1963; three thousand hospitalized and six hundred dead because of one man's stupid mistake at a bottling plant." He shook himself slightly, as though to throw off some shadow that had fallen over him, and looked at his watch. "Sixteen hundred.

H. Beam Piper - Day of the Moron