Meesterverteller Malcolm Gladwell vertelt het verhaal van de  Norden-bommenrichter, een baanbrekend stuk technologie uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog, met een volkomen onverwacht resultaat.

Malcolm Gladwell: het bizarre verhaal van de Norden-bommenrichter. 

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.