Ones and Zeroes

There’s an emerging (or perhaps already established) sense around “engineering” which is different to “how it was”. 

Now it seems we are “engineering” code, which is all about ones and zeroes, rather than engineering buildings, bridges, railways, roads and viaducts.  I guess that’s all been done before and so there’s no thrill in it anymore. 

The investment – where the money is going - is now in ones and zeros (systems engineering, IT and data analytics), not so much in bricks and mortar.   So, this is the new engineering.  It’s not like the old engineering, where a tangible thing was built.