I believe that engineers should be dreaming on the scale of the Moon missions. Things like transparent cryptography everywhere, automated cars everywhere, eradicating famine from lack of food production, fully renewable efficient energy sources, cheap and quality education materials everywhere...
These are very integrated problems spanning a wide range of disciplines to solve. Pure engineering geekery isn't going to solve them, and engineers need to recognize that we limit ourselves by going deep.
Anyway, at my day job, part of our company's work in the past decade has been to get electricity to villages that never had electricity before. That's pretty awesome. :-)
These are very integrated problems spanning a wide range of disciplines to solve. Pure engineering geekery isn't going to solve them, and engineers need to recognize that we limit ourselves by going deep.
Anyway, at my day job, part of our company's work in the past decade has been to get electricity to villages that never had electricity before. That's pretty awesome. :-)