[buboard]

> silently concluded that the physical world has evolved enough

the main culprit is regulation. There are other markets which build modern cities at breakneck pace

the same thing is going to happen to tech now that regulation is kicking in

[flir]

As someone who saw Grenfell go up from his bedroom window, I'll take the regulation thanks.

[shadowgovt]

Agreed. You can take software as an example; it's far less regulated than most infrastructure sectors, but how many outages per year does Facebook have? How many times per year are our PII gutted out of an under-secured dataset?

Now, that level of sloppiness, but applied to bridges and skyscrapers? No thanks.

[ryacko]

How do you regulate public housing?

[flir]

I don't even understand the question in this context.

But on not turning buildings into death traps, I'd start by asking the ICWCI.