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

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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
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
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Focus: The ASML way - Inside the power struggle over the most complex machine on earth
Maintenance of Everything: Part One
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
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
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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
How To Build A Car
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Eliezer Yudkowsky
It doesn't matter who is in charge, because this problem is out of humanity's league. ...more
Eliezer Yudkowsky, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Warum eine superintelligente KI uns alle vernichten würde | Der New York Times Bestseller über Risiken der künstlichen Intelligenz

Abhijit Naskar
Intelligence without perspective enhances machines while reducing mind to afterthought.
Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

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