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Why it is so hard to be a Renaissance Wo(man). Do we
want to be? Do we need to be? In our pursuit for more
knowledge we seem to get more and more specialized and
less able to follow a thread in a field different from
our own, even when we are in the same super field. The
details in our own field are overwhelming, frequently
bogged down by the required - unique way of describing
our concepts or theories.
We are overwhelmed by facts and we miss connections.
We complicate rather than simplify. What if we
dropped the idea of being well versed in many fields
or for that matter evaluated what is important to know
about our own field. What if we focused on connections
and how best to use them to solve the questions we
have? Apply more automated processes to gathering,
analyzing and disseminating information from and to
all fields. Be a master of information rather than a
deep specialist in a particular field. This sounds
shallow and it could be without discipline.
There are a lot of new wheels being created out there
and I wonder if we are really using them to move
forward or are we just spinning?
John Hellier
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