By Robert Bellinger T alk about fickleness. Engineers are as subject as anyone else to the swings and arrows of economic, political and social fortune. Less than half picked the United States, and 42 percent thought we'd be speaking Japanese for business by this time.
Perceptions change on a dime.
Today's cocky rooster is tomorrow's dinner. We don't know, of course. And that's part of the excitement of the engineering field. Our rea ders turn corners at top speed. Once in a while, they hit a wall.