Preparing for the worst

I just read an IEEE Spectrum article Preparing for the worst about a book "The Next Catastrophe: Reducing our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters".

excerpt:

He argues that the problem is being aggravated by the concentration of ­economic and political power, which tends to create targets and increase the magnitude of the disasters should something go wrong. Perrow cites as an example the world’s standardization on Microsoft Windows, which he compares to the dependence on a single crop, a blight on which could threaten the livelihoods of millions of people.

After reading the article I really want to read the book.