Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
Today over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math science technology and engineering yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.
This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering computer science mathematics.
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.
Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science engineering and exploration.
I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology but I was always trying to build things.
I do engineering not religion.
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science along with behaviour control genetic engineering transplanted heads computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.