This essay from Wired addresses the educational preoccupation with STEM and concludes it is vaporware. The term vaporware in my experience describes promised software that actually never actually ships. The essay offers a claim for the origin of STEM education which was new to me and takes the position that the hodgepodge of content areas offer no meaningful cohesion. One ends up with the perspective that STEM is basically a marketing ploy pushing some vague position on what content areas are necessary for national competitiveness.