Yeah, I adapted my spectrum from your ellipses, but I merged your Engineering and Mathematics together, because that distinction wasn't the focus of the talk.
And I guess I'm trying (in passing) to get people to aspire to "mathematical engineering" (like electrical engineering) as opposed to "tinkering/cookbook engineering" (like a lot of software engineering).
On Jun 11, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Alan Kay <
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> Yay!
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> I like to explain STEM in historical order (and use the "T" for something better than the redundant term "Techonology", so:
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> Tinkering Engineering Mathematics Science as overlapped ellipses.
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> I think of Engineering historically as "principled ways of next steps after Tinkering" and many of these used cookbooks before math came along, and many of them helped get math invented.
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> This is a good one!
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> Cheers
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> Alan
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> My EG talk from last month is online:
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> I've apparently reached the stage of my career where I no longer make things, but just draw pictures of them and wish they existed. Hey, it worked for Vannevar Bush.
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> (Okay, that's not really true. I didn't draw the pictures.)
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