Re:Multidisciplinary
by TeMPOraL on Saturday May 07, 2016 @08:28AM
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> A human being should be able to fly a Boeing 747
That's what we have flight simulators for (the good kind, not the arcade ones).
> run a marathon
Lots of people do that :). Hell, I might even do it myself one day.
> design a nuclear reactor
Well, why not? Of course your design isn't going to cut it because of tons of engineering trade-offs involved, but I think one should be able to make a "complex enough" design that makes sense.
> prove Fermat's last theorem, climb the K2, dance the Swan Lake, discover new drugs, speak 7 languages
Oh come on. :).
I get your point about perspective, but I still think we're specializing a bit too much. Given that the boundaries of our occupations are pretty arbitrary, and the reality doesn't care about them, we're losing out on knowledge at the boundaries. T-shaped skills, or whatever is the buzzword du jour for it these days, seems like a good idea.
That, and I think Heinlein is arguing for people to have a little thicker horizontal bar in their "T". :).
That's what we have flight simulators for (the good kind, not the arcade ones).
> run a marathon
Lots of people do that :). Hell, I might even do it myself one day.
> design a nuclear reactor
Well, why not? Of course your design isn't going to cut it because of tons of engineering trade-offs involved, but I think one should be able to make a "complex enough" design that makes sense.
> prove Fermat's last theorem, climb the K2, dance the Swan Lake, discover new drugs, speak 7 languages
Oh come on. :).
I get your point about perspective, but I still think we're specializing a bit too much. Given that the boundaries of our occupations are pretty arbitrary, and the reality doesn't care about them, we're losing out on knowledge at the boundaries. T-shaped skills, or whatever is the buzzword du jour for it these days, seems like a good idea.
That, and I think Heinlein is arguing for people to have a little thicker horizontal bar in their "T". :).