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![]() The Homebuyer's Manifesto
It looks so quaint now; the technology is more than 20 years old. Maybe you feel a spasm of pity for your former self (or your ancestors)--all those people who wasted hours, days, weeks of their lives waiting, just waiting for these machines to do only a modest portion of what they do today in a fraction of a second. Flip the page to the modern homebuilding industry, where 20-year-old technology is the order of the day. Why? There are some sound reasons, and other not-so-sound reasons. We need a homebuilding industry with a healthy skepticism about new technology; it acts as a barrier to protect us from disastrous consequences. Remember polybutylene piping? Hailed as a highly affordable alternative to metal pipes, it soon became synonymous with hyped failure, as cracked pipes revealed the material's limits--at the expense of homeowners from coast to coast. Of course technology adoption has to move cautiously. We're not building computers here. And yet. Proven but little-used technologies exist today that can make homes:
We live in a world very different from the one we inhabited 20 years ago. Shouldn't we expect our housing to reflect our changed circumstances and meet our collective needs? Content updated on 11/21/2007 |
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