Philosophers and Engineers

Speaking of engineers, there would hardly be any if it weren't for the philosophers first. Where would the computers we're surfing be if it weren't for Descarte, Leibniz, or Turing (and many others)?

As the inventor of the Cartesian coordinate system, Descartes founded analytic geometry, that bridge between algebra and geometry crucial to the invention of calculus and analysis. Descartes's reflections on mind and mechanism began the strain of western thought that much later, impelled by the invention of the electronic computer and by the possibility of machine intelligence, blossomed into, e.g., the Turing test.
- Wikipedia

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