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Moxie Marlinspike >> Blog >> The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization

#engineering #essay #science #vision | The people who create software generally refer to themselves as software engineers, and yet if they graduate from university, it is typically with a degree in computer science. That has always felt a little strange to me, because science and engineering are two pretty different disciplines – yet ...

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Design is about values — Mike Press — Medium

#design #essay #morals #research #science #values | <blockquote>Design makes a statement of what we want the world to be like. And in doing so, it is a political activity. Values are political, values express preferences about what problems are worth solving, and in whose interests they are solved. Values determine the degree to which design liberates or empowers the individual and those communities that make up the wider society.</blockquote>

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Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa

#economics #essay #history #science #space | <blockquote>Besides the need for new technologies, there is a continuing great need for new basic knowledge in the sciences if we wish to improve the conditions of human life on Earth. We need more knowledge in physics and chemistry, in biology and physiology, and very particularly in medicine to cope with all these problems which threaten man’s life: hunger, disease, contamination of food and water, pollution of the environment. </blockquote>

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