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How Engineers Became Cool

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Mark Zuckerberg JD Lasica from Pleasanton, CA, US, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Satya Nadella Brian Smale and Microsoft, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Elon Musk: AP PHOTO/JAE C. HONG, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Jeff Bezos: Blue Origin
Gwynne Shotwell: NASA

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0:03 Ivan Bandura, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
0:05 Yamen, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
0:32 Photos
Elon Musk: Tesla
Bill Gates: Briansmale, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Mark Zuckerberg: Anthony Quintano from Honolulu, HI, United States, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Larry Ellison: Oracle Corporate Communications, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Larry Page: Stansfield PL, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Sergey Brin: Joi Ito from Inbamura, Japan, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
0:36 Jeff Bezos photo courtesy of Amazon
0:38 Change.org petition https://www.change.org/p/blue-origin-petition-to-not-allow-jeff-bezos-re-entry-to-earth
1:10 Ben Stanfield, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
1:17 Blake Patterson, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
1:20 Matthew Yohe at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
1:23 Erik Pitti, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
1:26 matt buchanan, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
1:36 Anthony Quintano from Honolulu, HI, United States, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
2:16 Statistics Canada https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/200219/t001b-eng.htm
2:37 Patrick Pichette photo from LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-pichette-665836105/?originalSubdomain=uk
Pichette quote from an ABC News (Australia) interview cited here: https://www.salon.com/2013/02/19/googles_impossible_plan_to_fix_our_broken_world/
3:50 World Economic Forum: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/dont-fear-ai-it-will-lead-to-long-term-job-growth/
4:11 Columbia SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news/engineers-run-world

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