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by wrp 1591 days ago
He does address that criticism on pages 9-10. He recognized the point, but felt that "two cultures" was a sufficient first approximation to make an interesting argument.

His "two cultures" point is made in the first section, and people tend to ignore the rest of it. His main purpose was to bemoan the lack of emphasis on engineering education in the West, and to argue that the rich nations need to export engineering skills to the poorer nations to help them develop.