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Engineering Tomorrow: Today's Technology Experts Envision the Next Century, Edited by Janie Fouke, Written by Trudy E. Bell and Dave Dooling; IEEE Press, 2000 (IEEE's millennium book)
[Named an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice magazine, journal of academic librarians, January 2001]
Engineers can invent almost anything society wants--and this book projects fascinating technologies for the 21st century. But how can we ensure that technology is humane and not inane?
That engineers have a responsibility to make ethical judgments about societal goodness--indeed, that engineering is a helping profession as surely as medicine or education--is a repeating theme among the 50 Nobel laureates, engineering society fellows, and other luminaries (including Vint Cerf, Freeman Dyson, Stewart Brand, Sylvia Earle, Charles Townes, Arno Penzias, and Wilson Greatbatch).
"A truly inspiring book that should be in college libraries and in career counseling offices." - Choice magazine, June 2000
"50 vexing problems, as seen by 50 very different people...each opinion offers a lively entry into a societal problem [that] are serious questions that deserve serious consideration ...a strikingly handsome coffee-table book...write-ups are clear and simple…" - IEEE Spectrum, January 2000
"...a kaleidoscopic illustrated survey of the changes that may lie ahead…" - Parade magazine, January 16, 2000
Current project:
Radio Dreams: The Half-Century Gold Rush for the Electromagnetic Spectrum (working title) Edited by Roger D. Pollard, Written by Trudy E. Bell and Dave Dooling
Arguably, the single largest natural resource to be opened for economic development in the last half of the 20th century has been the radio region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Discoveries and inventions--and governmental actions regarding radio frequencies--have touched off bona fide gold rushes of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists racing to stake their claims to the best frequencies and to secure patents.
While business entrepreneurs have been in the limelight, behind the scenes have been the inventive geniuses who actually created the radio and microwave technologies that corporations and governmental bodies took public.
This book is their story.
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