Most of the comments seem to be missing the point. There's a lack of cross-discipline. If you are bad in field A, and an expert in field B, you may be able to c

Most of the comments seem to be missing the point. There's a lack of cross-discipline. If you are bad in field A, and an expert in field B, you may be able to comeup with a revolutionary idea for field B, not because you're one lucky son of a bitch, but because your expertise in area A put you in advantageous/unique perspective. We all saw biologist cooperate with engineers (using nature-invented systems in engineering, prostetic arms, etc), politicians cooperate with doctors (cheap medical solutions for poorer countries), and many more awesome examples. I think we're lacking some kind of platform or incentive to interconnect disciplines. Programmers among us see it everyday — just go to your local DMV, take a spot in the endless waiting line, and notice how much you wish they'd let you write a decent piece of software or build a simple mechanism to make this hell go away. We need to allow people to tinker in unrelated to their own fields. How? I don't know, but I think it's a big deal.