Consulting engineers

摘要

Since the earliest civilisation there has been progressive technological evolution and artisans have carefully preserved and passed on these skills to future generations by their teaching and example. Aristotle suggested: 'The only way to learn to do something is to do it.' These philosophies have kept us in good stead right up to the present day. But the question now arises will it continue? In just about all industries the practice of the old-fashioned apprenticeship has, in many disciplines, unfortunately disappeared. During the last few years there has been an incredibly steep rise in technological development, particularly within the fields of computing and electronics ― and this is changing week by week. Telephonic-type information transfer communications is accelerating with present capabilities in excess of 2Mb/sec.