Name: Malcolm Gladwell: Die sonderbare Geschichte des Norden-Bombenzielgeräts
Uploaded: 2011-10-26T15:21:28Z
Duration: 14 min 43 s
Description: Meistererzähler Malcolm Gladwell erzählt die Geschichte des Norden-Bombenzielgeräts, einer bahnbrechenden Technologie des Zweiten Weltkriegs mit gänzlich unerwarteten Folgen.

Meistererzähler Malcolm Gladwell erzählt die Geschichte des Norden-Bombenzielgeräts, einer bahnbrechenden Technologie des Zweiten Weltkriegs mit gänzlich unerwarteten Folgen.

Malcolm Gladwell: Die sonderbare Geschichte des Norden-Bombenzielgeräts

The Norden bombsight promised to revolutionize warfare by letting pilots drop bombs with pinpoint accuracy, but on the battlefield, reality proved more complicated. Despite $1.5 billion invested and 90,000 devices built, only 10 percent of bombs hit a massive German chemical plant, and many failed to detonate. Even as modern weapons have grown even more precise, conflicts like Afghanistan and Iraq reveal that knowing where to strike matters far more than technological accuracy. Human complexity often renders our most impressive inventions powerless to deliver on their grandest promises.