Law of the Day | 0319
There’s a cycle [in which] engineers take a new principle and develop it, and it becomes bolder and bolder until it reaches a point where it fails. The cycle for that is 30 years…. Petroski says if engineers study this cycle, then they are better able to recognize in developing their new designs when they might be reaching a point like that. He’s talking primarily about bridges, but it applies to other things.
Edward Tenner, interviewed in: ‘TED 2011 Q&A: How Technology Bites Us’
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