As a software engineer, I always loved the notion that humans invented engineering when they stopped believing in magic because they still wanted to experience that magic. The best way to see something that doesn't exist is to create it. That's why "every new, advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" (as famously put by Arthur C. Clarke in his Three Laws). Think about it: all new technologies always feel a bit amazing and magic. I never liked chemistry in school…