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> great engineering being trumped by globalised economics The art of engineering is not to create a beautiful machine, it's to build something that does the jo
by tgsovlerkhgsel 7y ago
> great engineering being trumped by globalised economics
The art of engineering is not to create a beautiful machine, it's to build something that does the job as efficiently as possible.
It's easy to build a machine that does something, it's hard to build it so it can also be manufactured cheaply. See e.g. the Juicero (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero#Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero#Controversies).
- yummypaint 7y agoI don't think the juicero was about solving a problem people actually had. It's real purpose was to add DRM to fruit.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 7y agoWell, yes, of course, bad engineering was not Juicero's biggest problem, but it was part of the issue and the reason why their DRM machine was so expensive to manufacture.