1. Technology people are presented with a social/cultural/government situation that seems inelegant, irrational and overly complex.

2. They decide to "solve" that problem using technology.

3. Even with the new technology, it somehow appears everything is not miraculously better.

4. Technology people propose layering a few small social fixes on top of their technology to address the "minor issues" left by their brilliant technology.

5. They fail to realize all of their kludgy human-level patches on top of the technology are merely less-mature forms of the social structure they claimed to have replaced in step 2. Now we have an even less elegant, more irrational, more complex social institution, mixed with non-helpful technology.

6. Now the problem is not fun to work on any more (too much squishy inelegant human stuff), so they wander off to "solve" some other cultural malady.