What do you consider the primary technological hubris of Titanic?

To be clearer - the hubris of Titanic wasn't technological, it was operational - it was going too fast, in an ice field, with a lack of lookouts - beyond this, it didnt reduce speed after ice was spotted.

Yes, there were issues, damage to such a small portion of the ship (less than 1/3) shouldn't have caused it to sink (I'll note, many other ships had similar or worse flaws than Titanic did).

The lifeboats on the other hand (as most commonly cited) are not a real issue - Titanic started launching boats about 25 min after it struck the iceberg, which is about how long a damage survey would take. It had not launched all 20 boats by the time the forward list became so great that they were unable to launch more - this doesn't even touch the multitudes below decks, many of whom didnt speak english, or were unable to be moved up to the boat deck in a timely enough fashion.

I'd also like to share something I dug up from the internet[1]:

"As far as I can determine, Titanic is the single example of a passenger ship that sank with decks level. It was probably the only time in history when lifeboats could be launched from both sides simultaneously. The Andrea Doria sinking is a more typical event. In that case, half of the lifeboats were rendered useless by the cant of the decks. Given the testimony that Titanic was "lolling" as it foundered (listing from side to side), it is highly probable that carrying sufficient lifeboats would have raised the center of gravity sufficiently to have caused a permanent list early in the evening. In other words, the weight of those extra boats might have created a situation in which they could not have been used, anyway.

And, it is conveniently overlooked that from the moment when launching boats became necessary until the moment when it became impossible was not long enough to launch the 24 boats the ship carried. If it had carried more boats, they could not have been filled and launched properly. This is not to say that some people might not have used the un-launched boats to survive--just to point out that more lifeboats was not the answer to saving everyone aboard Titanic.

The only way to save everyone on any passenger ship is to not let it sink. That's the key, not lifeboats.

White Star and the British Board of Trade had an embarassing situation on their hands. They had lost the world's largest ship...not to mention some 1,500 irreplaceable souls. They needed an issue to divert public attention from the real problems behind Titanic's foundering. For instance the lack of lookout, the speed, and the fact that the ship was already well into the ice when it struck. Why wasn't the conduct of the voyage changed at 10:00 p.m. instead of after the accident? Or, what was wrong with the design of the ship that allowed damage to the bow to ultimately claim the whole ship? These issues go to the heart of the matter, but public attention was easily diverted by the lifeboat issue. It was a diversion that worked so well that the lack of lifeboats has become almost the only safety issue ever discussed."

[1]: https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/community/threads/boar...