Foreword. -- Preface. -- Part 1 About Engineers. -- The Joy of Engineering. -- The Image Gap. -- The High-Tech Appeal. -- Celebrities as Engineers. -- Layers of Ability. -- Engineers: Dearth or Glut? -- The Best and the Brightest. -- Engineers: Born or Made? -- The Curriculum Dilemma. -- Giving Away the Store. -- Part 2 So What If Engineers Can't Talk or Write? -- The Gong Show. -- Feedback. -- The Banquet Speech. -- Sliding By. -- Not Ready for Prime Time. -- Credentials: Who Needs Them? -- A Way with Words. -- The Papermill. -- Part 3 The Fickleness of Technology. -- Rampant Technology. -- The Incredible Shrinking Transistor. -- What's Real Anymore? -- An Engineer in the Land of Lilliput. -- Goodbye, Heathkit. -- The Electronic Hobbyist. -- The Paper Airplane. -- A (Very Modern) Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. -- Coping with Complexity. -- Software Productivity. -- What's Bugging Us? -- Plugging In. -- The Wisdom of the Net. -- The Gigabit Network: Who Needs It? -- Part 4 Playing the Corporate Game. -- The Bean Counters. -- Corporate Communication. -- Management Power. -- Toward Dynamic Demos. -- The Fashionable Thing. -- Leapfrog a Generation! -- Proprietary Information. -- Tahiti or O'Hare? -- Committees and Canines. -- Turf. -- That Dreaded NIH Syndrome. -- Finger Pointing. -- Part 5 Looking at Life. -- The Geniuses Among Us. -- Diminishing Dinosaurs. -- The Dreaded Test. -- The Footsteps of Giants. -- Faking It. -- The Frenzied Life. -- What's Going On? -- The Information Age. -- Part 6 Fantasies of the Future. -- Coding Is Dead. -- Computer Aid. -- The Information Filter. -- The Phone Surrogate. -- The Communications Millennium. -- The Friendly Interface. -- The Ambitious Word Processor. -- The Grand Challenge. -- Carwars. -- Telepresence. -- HDTV... and Then?