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And the 14 Grand Engineering Challenges of the 21st Century Are... | Wired Science from Wired.com

By Chuck Squatriglia February 15, 2008 | 6:08:28 PMCategories: Engineering

Before you can save the world, you'd better write a to-do list so nothing gets overlooked. Some of the world's brightest minds have done just that by laying out this century's greatest engineering challenges.

The panel of 18 engineers, technologists and futurists included Google co-founder Larry Page and genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter. They spent more than a year pondering how best to improve life on Earth and came up with 14 Grand Engineering Challenges, a list the National Academy of Engineering deemed so momentous it should be capitalized.