Erik: What do you love about technology and
how is your engineering background helped
you cultivate this interest over time?
Marc: The reality is that an engineering degree
gives you the discipline and the training
–it’s really a process of thought more
than anything else and how to break down technology
and how to break down problems. So I think
it was that married with my love of kind of
tinkering and playing around with things and
understanding how they worked, I think made
a good combination. I think I’ve always
been interested in taking things apart and
tinkering and understanding how things work
so I don’t know if its my engineering background
has fostered my love for technology its probably
the other way around. It was that I had a
love for technology an in order to be taken
seriously in this world as a uh as someone
who likes to who tinker with things and technology
in general you need to have an engineering
background. So you know that seemed like the
obvious path and at the time that was the
obvious path you know there wasn’t a big
computer science push when I went, when I
picked the school picked the major that I
was in, at the time electrical engineering
which is what I chose was by far the best
way to get into that area. And I was you know,
I was you know kind of a geek in my interests
growing up I uh you know loved science fiction
and you loved… I was specifically interested
in robotics and I talked to a couple of friends
and parents’ friends who were kind of a
little more technical in their jobs and they’d
all recommended that I go into engineering
as kind of the first step.
