Sublime

More attention needs to be given to making systems durable, repairable, adaptable, robust, and resilient.

How do we deal with risk in this complexity of multiple layers of emergent characteristics?

Informed debate should enable us to find more consistent ways of managing engineering risk.

How do engineers actually deal with risk?

The over-stretched balloon represents an accident waiting to happen.

There is still a need for highly specialist expertise that has to keep up with new technology. But perhaps even more importantly, that specialism must be tempered with a much wider understanding of the big picture than has typically been the case in the past.

Avoid intermediaries