User Engineering – Critical Engineering 5

The Critical Engineer recognises that each work of engineering engineers its user, proportional to that user’s dependency upon it.

This tenant states that a user of a technology will be changed based on the technology and the user’s dependency upon it. A prime example of this which is prevalent in today’s society is the use of smart phones. Smart phones have given users easy access to data such as social feeds and email in their pocket. Without them, I believe that the users who are so focused and consumed by their social feeds would not be at all the same. In this way, smart phones have engineered the society to be more dependent upon social media.