One of the articles that cropped up in hackers news within the last year mentioned that we have seen technological innovation drive down the cost and almost eve

One of the articles that cropped up in hackers news within the last year mentioned that we have seen technological innovation drive down the cost and almost every field of endeavor except construction. In construction the innovation improvements have been completely offset by the inefficiencies of the regulations incrementally imposed. And, of course, when you talk about errors in the system you are mainly talking about the system itself - - which as anybody who has studied bureaucracies knows exist to support and extend itself, not to provide the service for which it was originally created