>Specialization is for insects. Specialization is the only way we can currently make progress as a species, and is the only way we will be able to for the fore

>Specialization is for insects. Specialization is the only way we can currently make progress as a species, and is the only way we will be able to for the foreseeable future. If everyone only had a passing or surface level knowledge of every field, they could not add to our collective understanding of any field. To actually advance human understanding in a field, an individual needs to catch up on everything that has been learned about it up to this point. For some fields, that is hundreds of years of research and knowledge gained. That's not practical to learn for more than one or two fields - we simply don't live long enough. If you want the person who makes the next alloy that makes planes another 20% lighter, you're going to need someone who has dedicated most of their life to just learning material sciences and is putting all their effort into that topic. It isn't going to be done by someone who had one quarter of a semester in college on it. (With rare exceptions)