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Hearing from the leaders of the tech world is always revealing, and very often surprising. In our second annual Silicon Valley Insiders Poll, a panel of 101 executives, innovators, and thinkers weigh in on some of the biggest technological, political, and cultural questions of the moment.
So when we ran an unscientific poll of leaders and thinkers in tech, we had to ask: Which technology do you wish you could un-invent? What innovation do you think should go "back in the box" and be banished forever?
The two winning responses were: selfie sticks and nuclear weapons.
But let's go through some runners-up first.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/what-would-you-un-invent/413818/
Which inventions would Soylentils like to un-invent?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday November 06 2015, @02:24PM
Properly built highways here in the US are all made with concrete. The concrete is more stable than asphalt, and can handle a much higher load, which is important for longevity when tractor-trailers are driving on them at high speeds. The concrete is rather thick though (well over a foot IIRC, maybe two), to prevent problems with subsidence you refer to. Then, to avoid the noise and glare problems you complain about, it's coated with a layer of asphalt on top. Later, for maintenance, it's easy to redo the thin asphalt coat while leaving the concrete base intact.
Concrete driveways aren't so great because 1) the concrete is always too thin, as you found, and 2) the quality of the concrete is likely crap.
Of course, the downside to the properly built highways above is that they're extremely expensive per-mile compared to just slapping some regular asphalt down.