[sdiy] Can your *really* teach "Engineering"?

[Samppa Tolvanen]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:00 PM, cheater cheater<cheater00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sorry, but modern technology is but a blip on the map of human
> existence. Exploring your feelings and emotion through art and
> entertainment is not.
>

Woo, that was a good troll to agree with! Maybe I'm just too
influenced by environmental CRP, but I hardly feel that technocrats
have really proven their side to be correct either.

Yeah, humans have lived before. But it took industrialism and huge
growth of the GDP/capita to grant us Westerners the Citizenship as we
know it. Now that we have EVERYTHING, the lie to keep the wheels
rolling is to make it obsolete faster and sell us more "Environmental
friendly" products. The persistent problem of the Humans now having
capabilities to utilize natural resources more than it can't stand, is
still there, but the Ruhr area just has moved away from our back
garden to Far-East.

>
> Social and sociostructural progress is insanely more important than soldering.
>

But soldering has direct impact on both :D


> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Bruce Duncan<modcan at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> Absolutely,
>>
>> There should be an Academy Award equivalent for accomplishments in
>> engineering and design.

Oh yeah? I'd be more interested in the Razzie equivalents. "Common
Sense" was never that  valued in the engineering, so You'll see Human
Interfacing that's definitely NOT made thinking the end users. "Smart,
powerful and doesn't even try to hide it behind any clever UIs". User
manuals (where applicable) aren't written by the Engineers as the
troubleshooting section starts with "Is the power on and device
plugged into the wall" =D

Samppa