IN DE AANBIEDING
Engineers and societal challenges
1815-2015
Technology is often identified as both cause of, and solution to, social and ecological challenges. How can we use technology to solve problems, without creating new ones? This book discusses the role of engineering in our age of grand challenges—by drawing lessons from the past. It examines why and how engineers have engaged with such ‘grand challenges’ since the inception of modern engineering roughly two centuries ago. It asks why some technological solutions have unexpectedly created new problems.
