It’s not magic
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
Engineers, regardless of discipline, are taught a lot of undergraduate-level chemistry, physics, thermodynamics, and calculus. Despite that, while the knowledge far exceeds what a “normal” person will have to learn - it still pales in comparison to the theoretical knowledge that a grad student would get in any of those individual disciplines.
And that makes sense, because engineers need to understand the theoretical science enough to apply it. The lower the education level, the more applied the engineer generally is.
I’m an ME, but I’ve also had some EE and CompE. And recently, I’ve been talking a lot about low-level semiconductor observation and debug techniques. Am I an expert in them? No. But I know enough about the techniques to know that they: 1.) exist, 2.) what they can do, 3.) what they can’t do.
I’m to the point now where I want to bring in reinforcements.
Immediately, that would be bringing in researchers like Matt Brown to talk about uncloaking the behavior of IoT devices and phones - since many people think these are black boxes that have unseen behavior.
I want to bring in Professor Dave to provide some social commentary on the move away from embracing the truth of things. I want Jon Padenfeld to talk about the erosion of personal data rights, and the increasing surface area of the surveillance state.
I don’t want my content to by constrained by the limits of my expertise.
Anyone want to suggest interviewees? Let me know in the comments!
