By: TheophileEscargot
I think this is a poor article on an interesting subject. I started out with a Physics B.Sc. and a Masters in Computer Science, but in recent years I've become more interested in economics, history,...
View ArticleBy: Apocryphon
In fact, a large proportion of the communist party leaders are engineers. That's just because it's the closest modern equivalent to the scholar-gentry.
View ArticleBy: IAmBroom
namewithoutwords: Say what? Spock isn't even the central figure of the Star Trek imagination, much less that of Science Fiction as a whole... Speak for yourself, non-nerd.
View ArticleBy: Artw
Damn you engineers for doing those "easy" things instead of engaging in what's the grown up equivalent Of a really pissy Wikipedia fight. You could be making the world so much better if you changed...
View ArticleBy: deo rei
It's also why they are actually competent at their job. Why yes, if you limit your job to the easy bits - the bits that can be solved - it's hard not to succeed.
View ArticleBy: leotrotsky
What's a lawyer's job? To win an argument. Sometimes even if they disagree with what they're arguing for; it's just about the winning. Talk about your oversimplifications. You have no idea what real...
View ArticleBy: polymodus
Again the broader issue is that our world increasingly finds itself dominated by technology, while there is comparatively limited education or deep thinking going on about the ethics or philosophy of...
View ArticleBy: deo rei
What's an engineer's job? To solve a problem given constraints, and develop an optimum solution that works in as many cases as possible. Well, that's an engineer's answer. Another answer might be that...
View ArticleBy: polymodus
The article comes across as really unintellectual, and yet I must agree with him despite his blatant incorrectness. He is basically railing against scientism or technocracy (in their modern...
View ArticleBy: atrazine
But on economic grounds, her government only supported replacing CFCs after after what was then the UK's biggest company, ICI, came up with a more profitable alternative. Pretty much why the US,...
View ArticleBy: Kadin2048
gibson != stephenson Whoops, you're right, although in my defense he also talks about Stephenson in the same breath.
View ArticleBy: biffa
Margaret Thatcher was an early backer of the regulatory process that led to the Montreal Protocol for phasing out ozone layer damaging chemicals and an early believer in the global warming effects of...
View ArticleBy: leo_r
I suppose it's also probably worth mentioning that very, very few of the engineers I know (mechanical engineering) have even the remotest interest in scifi. In my experience (obviously completely...
View ArticleBy: scruss
I love the fact that we engineers have made the world so perfectly that other people think they are in charge.
View ArticleBy: 445supermag
SKINNER: "Oh excellent, not only are the trains now running on time, they're running on metric time."
View ArticleBy: cardboard
If engineering was all about "hard science and precise measurements", we'd have already replaced ourselves with robots. This guy sounds like he's confusing engineers with engineering students--callow...
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