In most high-tech fields today, the know-how needed to make a component, sub-assembly or finished product has progressed too far and too fast for the average worker to be able to propose any useful innovations.

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With local craftsman and factories, they could literally be watching as prototypes and then finished goods came off the assembly line.

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Lord Rogers' debating chamber for the Welsh Assembly and Swansea's new waterfront museum are nearly finished.

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