And that is in no small part because nobody has tried, in more than 50 years, to design a comprehensive mental health system for all Americans.
Peter Ryan, a British professor of Applied Security at the University of Luxembourg who helped convene the Dagstuhl meeting in western Germany and has tried for years to design a safe computer voting system, said he was unimpressed by what he had seen of the Everyone Counts software.
"I never expected in a million years to design a coin".
At NeighborCare Bronfein spent a few million over several years to design a new pick-and-pack robot, but the project died after he left the company.
The company had been trying for years to design a glass bottle that could compete with Coca-Cola's iconic hourglass-shape.
According to Honda, the car took over three years to design, a top to bottom overhaul from the original NSX (the two do not even look alike).
At SXSW I spoke about how you could use UX methodology, which has been used in product and application design for years, to design a productive and engaging workplace.
Moreover, the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) together with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the FDA have committed 140 million U.S. dollars over 5 years to design a tissue "chip" for drug screening (DARPA 2011; NCATS 2011).
It's also "ballot box planning," which doesn't give the city a lot of flexibility after it spent years to design an attractive urban space near the city's Caltrain station.
"So it came back to a viaduct," says Kilby. "But if I had a 250 metre-long bridge to do anywhere else in the UK, it would take a year to design and a year to build.
