[salawat]

I second this. I spend a great deal of time digging through where we've positioned big data models to steer population scale behavior, and very infrequently do the implementers of the system ever stop to analyze the changes they are seeding or think beyond the first or second degree consequences once things take off.

That is all part of engineering to me, so by definition, I think many in the field are in fact, out to lunch.

[3gg]

Yes, thank you. Analyzing the effects of our technology should be part of the engineering process. The physicists back where I studied all go through a mandatory ethics class. Us software crowd, well...