Poor engineering leaves us hanging by a wire…
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By Peter Cochrane on 30 June 2008 10:52
In his latest video blog, a stranded Peter Cochrane reports from the side of railway track just north of London. A simple combination of poor engineering and inadequate resilience means that he, like thousands of other weary travellers, will not be reaching home any time soon.
Peter Cochrane is an engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, futurist and consultant. He is the former CTO and Head of Research at BT, with a career in telecoms and IT spanning over 40 years. Peter has also held a number of prominent academic positions including the UK's first Professor for the public Understanding of Science and Technology. For more about Peter, see www.cochrane.org.uk.
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1. anonymous
It's what you get when an organisation is run by accountants. Everything is based on normal usage so that when something unexpected happens the system can't cope because there's not enough margin, as Peter so rightly observed.
The NHS is a classic example of this: hospitals are designed so that there is just enough capacity - most of the time, so that when a disaster of some sort occurs, patients are stacked up in corridors...
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