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

[Aaron Lanterman]

On Aug 20, 2009, at 6:00 AM, cheater cheater 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.
>
> People used to have emotions before they had alphabets. People had op
> amps only for a few decades.
>
> Social and sociostructural progress is insanely more important than  
> soldering.

One is tied to the other, though. It's hard to make sociostructural  
process when you're society is based on subsistence farming.

I always point to the example of modern hip-hop as a uniquely American  
genre of music fueled heavily by technological advancement,  
particularly affordable sampling.

- Aaron