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Engineering Needs More Futurists (ieee.org)
1 point by rbanffy 23 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



They are restricting the solutions by encapsulating each problem with boundaries.

1. Create remote work technology that is better than open plan workplaces.

2. Create small self-driving one or two person electric cars.

3. Rebuild the sprawling two story office parks with multistory housing: one desk => one apartment. Everyone can walk to work.

4. And housing on top of schools and shopping malls for staff.

5. Standardized modular homes that can be easily assembled into new buildings and slip into old office buildings.

6. Nasty filters for email, messages, social media posts and replies.

7. Formal verification for software, and hardware that protects it. Penalties for broken software.




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