It’s elementary in my field of technology management that innovations gore the oxen of incumbent (“legacy”) firms that have much investment sunk in the older technologies. Experienced executives know productivity and profits go down after adopting a new technology, at least until all personnel are well-trained on it and exnovation is complete. o Other countries have stuck with national technology strategies, during the decade these strategies were out of fashion in America. (Are government technology choices inferior to private sector choices? · Update building codes, by means of a committee at least half of whose members are not beholden to legacy construction companies.