Research and future challenges in the early 20th century shaped the engineering disciplines as we know them.
Today, we are at the crossroads of changing the economy because of our future challenges and the emerging technologies developed or at the stage of conception.
The revamped sciences and engineering fields are creating new research areas that unofficially merge to form synthesis research. This could lead to reshuffling the academic disciplines and professions, making them new, to create seemingly multidisciplinary fields but in truth produce synthesis research.
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