WTC Lesson: Don't Obey

"For more than four years... civil engineers have been studying the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, sifting the tragedy for its lessons. And it turns out that one of the lessons is: Disobey authority. In a connected world, ordinary people often have access to better information than officials do," Gary Wolf writes in a provocative little Wired magazine essay. Go read it.

"For more than four years... civil engineers have been studying the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, sifting the tragedy for its lessons. And it turns out that one of the lessons is: Disobey authority. In a connected world, ordinary people often have access to better information than officials do," Gary Wolf writes in a provocative little Wired magazine essay. Go read it.