Robert Neunteufel wrote:
>
[snip]
> When I was a students representative, some 25 years ago, I tried to
> establish a compulsary program for technology assessment in the study
> program for mechanical engineering at the Technical University in
> Vienna.
> But we were not successful, as the academic teachers and the
> representatives of industrial companies said, that there was not enough
> time for such unimportant questions.
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>
> I am quite sceptic, that experts without the necessary responsibility
> can create a better future.
>
> How should those experts be educated and how can they be controlled?
There seem to be signs of hope in the engineering world.
Greater danger may come from the "social sciences" (people physics,
esp.: brain physics). See, e.g.,
http://www.cwru.edu/affil/wwwethics/
(formerly: http://web.mit.edu/ethics/www/ )
I personally have had communication with
several engineers who were highly
ethical persons, including: Mario Salvadori, Sam Florman, and --
I can't find his name right now, alas, the hero(s) of
the asbestos removal project at the Yale Art and Architecture
Building (ca. 1972).
\brad mccormick
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