Steve Jobs once proclaimed that "technology alone is not enough." Creating a better world, he repeatedly stressed, requires focus on people as well as technology, on the humanities as well as the sciences.
Jobs was right. But why? Because technology is about people as much as things. As a human endeavor, technology belongs as much to the humanities and social sciences as to the natural sciences. Technologies arise only when people consciously transform the material world for human ends. Without the humans who create, maintain and use technologies, they would not exist.
Yet humanities are rarely taught as an integral part of education in technical fields.