I believe that in tech we value innovations (new ideas) over well established principles. Innovation has a way of increasing value in the short term at the cost

I believe that in tech we value innovations (new ideas) over well established principles. Innovation has a way of increasing value in the short term at the cost of tech debt. The issue is that the debt always come due (esp. when the market is in downturn) and then there is a reckoning which leads us to scramble for a way out of the mess. When the market is in an upturn we forget everything and start the process again. The problem with this is our industry does not establish firm practices and licenses like in other disciplines like civil engineering, legal, medicine, etc. This causes us to focus on tech luminaries as a guiding post of how to behave in the field, which leads to chaos if the tech luminary is dishonest or unethical. We refuse to learn lessons from the past a repeat failure patterns, over and over again. As technology starts to eat the world, the people affected won't even have the opportunity to respond with laws or regulation, because we have no insight into what the field is going to do next and no way to control what people do.