Comment on Gabriel Moshenska: Reverse engineering and the archaeology of the modern world: Streitraum: Reverse Engineering

Abstract

The author’s summarised definition of reverse engineering, “the process of reasoning backwards from a technological artifact to the initial problem or design specification it was designed to solve or fulfill,” brings to mind an example from the Old World, and what might be described as the old way of doing archaeology. But one which, more recently, has been interpreted by artists.