2. Foundation of our culture - no. Foundation of our culture (the engineering culture) is about looking around, identifying problems and using rational-logical thought to find solutions. It just happened that we learnt casting before making silicon chips. I have done Mechanical Workshop as a student in my undergraduate curriculum. I learnt nothing new but the fact that most of us want to cling to already established norms. Again, it's an unnecessary exercise. I really think that in a field that is evolving as fast as this, we should rethink why and what norms and parts of relatively ancient culture should be follow and where evolving and discarding old ideas is necessary.