Engineering

Engineering (from Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise") is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes. The discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied science, technology and types of application. ...more

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport―A High-Octane History of Formula 1's Rise in America, Racing Culture, and Engineering Marvels
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Quantum Supremacy
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
The Design of Everyday Things
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Art of Electronics
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
How To Build A Car

Neil A. Hogan
Seeing two female characters discuss science in a fictional streaming series or movie, without talking about romance, tears me up. More, please!
Neil A. Hogan, Hoganthology: Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology

Robert A. Heinlein
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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