Are engineers solving problems or just creating new ones?

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  Shuvam

  To answer you in very simple words... With every good thing there follows a shadow..!
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  Ramani Aswath

  Kaustubh Katdare

  I really wonder if engineers are solving the problems

  That is the real problem.
  Engineers are supposedly creators. Problem solving is secondary and ad hoc. Unfortunately creativity takes a back seat these days. Creativity is neither taught nor encouraged in many places.
  On the other hand problem solving is given prominence.
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  Manish Goyal

  Version 1 created by engineer is always useful, version 1.1 and 1.2 is better and quite useful but as time grows and new version come then it becomes problem.
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  Ashraf HZ

  I guess the adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" doesn't apply these days 😛
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  Anoop Kumar

  
  Likewise,
  If it doesn't have any problem, it not good enough.
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  Vignesh Ananth

  Yeah... it's true.... engineers are solving as well as creating problems. If there isn't any problem then there is no innovations or thinking...
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  ash

  I guess the adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" doesn't apply these days 😛

  I guess it never worked that way. I'm pretty darn sure that our forefathers were pretty happy people living in the caves. Then someone said, hey look I can create fire just by rubbing stones. And then...
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  Ashraf HZ

  Kaustubh Katdare

  I guess it never worked that way. I'm pretty darn sure that our forefathers were pretty happy people living in the caves. Then someone said, hey look I can create fire just by rubbing stones. And then...

  Interesting line of thought. Was the action to rub the stones due to boredom? or was it through observation of another event (like someone accidentally rubbing the stones, or stones fell on each other after a rock fall or wind)?
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  ash

  Was the action to rub the stones due to boredom? or was it through observation of another event (like someone accidentally rubbing the stones, or stones fell on each other after a rock fall or wind)?

  I bet it was boredom. But how'd we know?
  
  All I mean until the last century, the mankind survived without telephones, TVs, WhatsApp and did pretty okay, right?
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  Anoop Kumar

  I disagree.. Mankind did OK.
  Technology advancement always helped in saving in disaster time and learning.
  
  It's other thing that we get irritated when we see people abusing technology and wasting it.
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  Vignesh Ananth

  ash

  Interesting line of thought. Was the action to rub the stones due to boredom? or was it through observation of another event (like someone accidentally rubbing the stones, or stones fell on each other after a rock fall or wind)?

  It's not boredom. Why won't we consider it as our forefathers intelligence?