Apr 01 2008
Techno-Gobbledygook: How People Can Say Nothing And Sound Impressive
Many politicians sound so impressive to the untrained ear. They can talk for hours and make no commitments while promising heaven and earth for free. Well, engineers (and lawyers and doctors as well I assume) have their own method of saying a lot – and nothing at all:
This is how we ended up with man-made global warming and the promise of eternal life from embryonic stem cells. Doesn’t he remind you a bit of Al Gore?
But isn’t that intuitively obvious to the casual observer.