My Lifelong Love-Hate Affair With Technology

My Life-Long Love-Hate Affair With Technology

by Ian I. Mitroff

As an Engineer with a complicated relationship with technology that spans six decades, I’m absolutely enthralled by technology, but more than ever, I live in abject fear in what technologists are doing daily.

In 1956, as an 18-year old, I entered UC Berkeley as a freshman in Civil Engineering. Coming from a chronically poor family, and being good in math and science, Engineering was a natural choice. It promised…