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Existential Pleasures of Engineering, The by Samuel C Florman |
This intriguing book hopes to overturn the notion of engineers as either earnest nerds or the driving force of a soul-less society. The author looks at significant moments in the historical development of engineering, notably those points when the engineer ceased to be perceived as a creative entity and became the bogeyman of the anti-technology movement, arguing that this is an misunderstanding of one of mankind's fundamental attributes. But engineers to replace politicians? Could work!
(Clive Yelf - bwl 12 January 2002 ) |
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