In the unlikely confines of an oil-company office complex here, people who sell gasoline are working to change the way you purchase all kinds of goods, from french fries to aspirin. The key, they say, is your key chain. That was well down the list of reasons I was never tempted to buy anything there. In a move that may prove particularly popular among academics and researchers, Google, an Internet search engine, has started indexing millions of Portable Document Format files.
Engineers solve problems.
Here, on the site of the American Consulting Engineers Council, get a quick look at some of the biggest problems and how they have been solved. The '70s brought strobe lights and disco balls. Most recently, in the era of techno music and raves, sophisticated argon lasers have become vogue. There's always snail-mail, of course. The United States was a different place in the 1930s.