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I realized long ago that the rate of change in technology makes it impossible to have a significant knowledge of something as varied as computer science. There

I realized long ago that the rate of change in technology makes it impossible to have a significant knowledge of something as varied as computer science. There are so many avenues to explore from electrical engineering to manufacturing to compiler design, languages, HTML, UX, design and color theory and that's just the surface. It is sad that one person can not possibly have the time to experience all aspects of their craft but it means that specialists become unique and important players.

hartror 16y ago
Which is why it is an important ability being able to find, understand and implement stored knowledge. I mean "ability" in that it is both a human learned ability and an ability of our tools. Books did this for a long time. Printing improved books by distributing the data cheaply and widely. But humans also used books as tools to create more and more data. So pretty quickly the data grew to the point where everyone has the data but you cannot see the forest for the trees. So now the killer app for knowledge is no longer distribution of the data but contextual searching of data.