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Experts tend to be specialists, focused on silos and deep dives into specific domains. The world is instead getting radically interconnected as "everything" is
by streamofdigits 5y ago
Experts tend to be specialists, focused on silos and deep dives into specific domains.
The world is instead getting radically interconnected as "everything" is represented - more or less faithfully - by fungible bits. We are going through an "anti-specialization" phase, where everything is in principle connected to everything.
This amorphous digital ocean phase will probably not last, but it might be decades before a new landscape has settled.
- musingsole 5y agoIn the future, every individual must be an expert on a single subject to a currently unimaginable depth. However, expertise must be simultaneously robbed of prestige and its value relegated to only its utility.