CONTAMINANTES
Expounding a New View of Accidents: Paul Virilio, 70, a French urbanist, philosopher and prolific writer, began developing this thesis [human accidents provoked by the very technology that we celebrate] after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in the United States in 1979. Now, he believes, we are more accident-prone or rather, technology and communications have made accidents more global in their impact. In his view, if an accident was long defined as chance, today only its timing and consequences are hard to predict; the accident itself is already bound to occur.