Is a bias showing?

[penguinfrk]

Originally Posted by Ian Curtis

I get that art is reinvented and reinterpreted all the time, I seem to be in the minority that really enjoyed Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet and I like West Side Story too. While I appreciate those, I really can't see it as equivalent to the massive jumps made by technology. The industrial and airplane turbines of today are engines that spin a shaft, just like James Watts' walking beam steam engines of the 1700s. While the modern engine is a descendent of those early engines, they are not created equal. While the steam engine was revolutionary in it's day, 1770s technology just doesn't cut it today. We don't teach people how to design walking beam steam engines, they just aren't relevant. (which doesn't mean they aren't cool! )

I think using advancement or progress interchangeably with or as a comparison to novelty is a dangerous thing to do. Maybe art isn't advancing as fast as technology or science, but it doesn't mean that West Side Story isn't a novel and refreshing reinvention of Romeo and Juliet. Maybe we're watching the same sports, but each game is different; imagine how boring it'd be if we watched the same Super Bowl game reruns or Charlie Chaplin movies over and over.

So much non-engineering goes into making good teams successful, be it marketing, animation, photography/videography, music production, web design... hell, we were even looking for good knitters to help us knit weights into fabric for this year's robot. As far as our team goes, Robotics Club is a huge misnomer, and if we couldn't communicate that, about two-thirds of our members and half our sponsors wouldn't be with us.