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Americans are ambivalent about technology. They make folk heroes of the engineers who forge new technologies-Robert Fulton, Thomas Edison, and, most recently, Steven Wozniak, inventor of the Apple computer. Yet scholars and pundits chroni- cally worry that technology and its servants will overwhelm the human spirit. I11 1986, U.S. colleges and universities will graduate some 82,000 new engineers, trained to create space-age commu- nications, plan bridges and dams, or design computer chips....