Where Engineers and Novelists Meet

摘要

Thomas Edison didn't exactly invent the incandescent light bulb;he just made it practical by trying out dozens and dozens of filament materials before hitting on one (carbon) that worked particularly well.If he had been operating in modern times,he might have been able to do the same thing-more efficiently-in a computer simulator similar in concept to a scenario planning tool.Scenario planning is partly about engineering-like problems-levels of service,performance,impact models,and so on-but that's not all it is.