Is it truly futile to hope for the occasional technologist to bring rigor to the matter? If one thinks of Almond Strowger, he nearly single handedly initiated

Is it truly futile to hope for the occasional technologist to bring rigor to the matter? If one thinks of Almond Strowger, he nearly single handedly initiated the weeding out a specific form of corruption (corruption of human telephone operators, to redirect economic traffic) for about a 100 years by inventing the automatic telephone exchange and phone numbers.