I’ve been told plenty of times that such a future is implausible. And I grant that our future may look a lot more like The Orville than Star Trek. But from an engineering, public health, and social perspective it seems that both of those visions have more similarities than differences. I accept that the individual work most of us do don’t directly build that future alone, but someone up-thread was quoting “E Pluribus Unum” and that’s how we get there.
(Auto-correct wished that to be “E Pluribus Ubuntu,” but I’ve always suspected LCARS is a lot more like BSD, Arch or Gentoo.)
Our present is equally implausible.
https://www.nspe.org/resources/pe-magazine/july-2009/called-....
There's also a code of ethics:
https://www.nspe.org/resources/ethics/code-ethics/engineers-...
Sadly, most software engineers aren't licensed professional engineers.
The Kipling oath isn't phrased that way so it probably wasn't a Canadian school, but it does have a similar intent.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_of_the_Calling_of_an_En...
I'm not Canadian, but I took some engineering classes and these oaths and rings were brought up when discussing ethics. Funnily enough we were told they were forged from the material of a collapsed bridge as a reminder to not build shitty bridges, but according to the article that's a myth.