Incredible growth rate… maybe a little rushed?

We had the opportunity to witness several events that rarely occur in Dubai especially in the lapse of a couple days. A sand storm followed by torrential rains (just a half hour) in the same day was pretty exceptional for the area. Prof. Moore described earlier the surprising effects of the deluge resulting in the inundation of the world’s biggest mall, great disturbance of traffic etc. In addition, during our stay the world’s biggest aquarium leaked and the world’s tallest tower’s elevators jammed. Oh and those are only a few of the world’s biggest, tallest, most expensive things they have there.

When I look at this, a question comes to my mind: how reliable is this exponential growth? They are investing, building, creating so fast; so eager to get to the top; I feel like they’re skipping a lot of steps. Instead of taking things easy, developing slowly but surely, they are hasting forwards. They can’t learn and build from past mistakes and when they realize their errors it’s too late and consequences can be disastrous. I mean good luck regaining the confidence of Louis Vuitton or Channel who just opened in the Dubai Mall and the first occupants of Burj Khalifa or completely rebuilding the sewage system for it to be capable of holding these rare but existent downpours.

What about the rest: education, healthcare, infrastructure, business administration…?