Engineering the Future by Dr. Brad Allenby
According to Dr. Brad Allenby, individuals live on the first “terraformed” planet that is known all over the universe. According to humans, they are changing the climate, the nitrogen and phosphorous cycles. The water cycles are also involved through the urbanization and renovation through biologics and their environment based on diverse scales. They are taking the initiative of designing organisms genetically and designing robots that function like real human beings. The critical mechanism of all the activities is based on technology, for example, the “Five Horsemen”, nanotechnology, robotics, biotechnology, information, communication technology, and the application of cognitive science.
Considering the entire world, it implicates unprecedented complexity, challenges and opportunities for engineering. According to engineers, currently the exhibited quote is “You want the future? You cannot handle the future! However, there is the capability of designing suitable means. The sustainability and development of technologies result to compelling and problematic aspects, although the current technologists are expected to manage proficiently and resourcefully in the entire sphere. The sustainability is be vague and complicated, as the main aim is to quantify the collinear concept with the quantitative engineering methodologies and tools.
In diverse cases, there are significant downplays indicating the significance of technology and technological systems in the changing world. Eventually, the sustainable engineering has an increased demand through clients and stakeholders. This is exhibited through volatile combination of the budding technology encompassing of nanotech, robotics, applied cognitive science and communication technology. These are the features likely to make the future unpredictable, uncertain and difficult compared to the present aspects. This is because the challenges are more philosophical than expected.
