It may cause mild pontist-rage to describe the history of bridge design and construction as sedentary, but radical innovation is rather hard to come by in a field that is so typologically constrained. The last 40 years have witnessed a fair degree of technical advancement but not at a revolutionary pace. The decades have stretched the statistics Olympic fashion, slowly eroding the records and delivering the occasional Bob Beamon style forward leap. We have moved from a manual to a digital world and can expect even greater technological change. But it would be rash to predict challenges or solutions that are inconceivable to us today.
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