Engineering Tomorrow: Signed
Language: English
Published by Institute of Electrical & Electronics Enginee, U.S.A., 1999
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Engineering Tomorrow: Signed
- Author
- Bell, Trudy E.
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Enginee, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0780353609
- ISBN 13
- 9780780353602
- Edition
- 1ST.
How can we ensure that technology is humane and not inane? Can nations mount an effective defense without having to shoot? When computer intelligence exceeds human intelligence, what will it mean to be human? If you could "uninvent" one technology, which would you choose –– and why? How can we prevent ourselves from drowning in high–tech waste? Why should engineers take the long view?
These questions and many others are explored in Engineering Tomorrow: Today′s Technology Experts Envision the Next Century by 50 world–renowned experts in all disciplines of science and technology.
Nobel laureates Arno Penzias and Charles H. Townes, Internet co–inventor Vinton G. Cerf, environmentalist Stewart Brand, physicist Freeman J. Dyson, record–holding oceanographer Sylvia A. Earle, arms experts Norman R. Augustine and Richard L. Garwin, and microchip pioneers Jack S. Kilby and Gordon E. Moore are among the 50 featured scientists and engineers who envision technology′s potential for the 21st century –– as well as the social responsibility borne by all who are engineering today and planning for tomorrow.
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- How can we ensure that technology is humane and not inane?
- Can nations mount an effective defense without having to shoot?
- When computer intelligence exceeds human intelligence, what will it mean to be human?
- If you could ‘uninvent’ one technology, which would you choose and why?
- How can we prevent ourselves from drowning in high–tech waste?
- Why should engineers take the long view?
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