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Re: What is the most important engineering problem of our future?
I dont mean interesting in a glib sort of way. The error conditions in our lives, the things that are not perfect, those things are very much a part of what makes us human
and they bring out the apects of human existance that we cherish the most. Anyone who has ever had a serious medical condition will have a great deal of love and respect for the medical professionals who treated and assisted them. If humans are perfected some day, we wont have doctors anymore.
Another way of looking at this: its been said to be an artist you need to suffer. You must get down to the core of existance to be able to communcate on a meaningfull level.
I never really bought into that yin-yang stuff, that good and bad are in balance. But it is true, if you've never gone for a day or two without food, you really dont know what a good meal is.
Im not trying to present this from a moral perspective. Im only relating the nature of our human existance. The things that have the most meaning to us seem to arise from error conditions that, if we could, we would eliminate.
Where does that leave us?
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