Not everything is a technical system, and technology does not exist in a void. I'd think the field that coined the term social engineering would understand that.
The tech world is in for a rude awakening as technology becomes less a field of nothing but specialists, and actually gets infiltrated by a greater and greater number of tech-savvy, yet industry independent stakeholders.
We've had a social blank check to work from for the better part of half a century. You now have people writing children's intros to k8's. If you don't think that at some points technical problems don't start getting solved via social/legislative/legal means, you're in for a bit of a rough time.
