An interesting read, matches my own experience in academia well. I hope that one of the good things to come out of today's "information age" is that a bright b

An interesting read, matches my own experience in academia well. I hope that one of the good things to come out of today's "information age" is that a bright but bored-with-school student can easily access materials more appropriate to their level, for example learn to learn some programming or more advanced maths in their free time. One point that I think is not particularly well made: "the ideal scientist is smart only to an intermediate degree" - immediately followed up by examples of people (including Wilson himself) estimated at least at the 90th percentile. That's not "intermediate" by any reasonable definition of the word!