Consistently enforce minimal set of rules. Become wedded to specific plant, equipment or training. Determine quality and quantity characteristics. Make direct investments. Although, clearly, some firms lobby government because they may believe that they can game the system.
Transportation is one matter, but communication has witnessed ever more rapid technological advance.
Telephony, broadcast, wireless, satellites, the Internet, computers. The technology of 20 years seems charmingly quaint. Archaic and obsolete - but quaint. Again, what transmits over time are knowledge, information, technique. Not plant equipment and training.