Neal Stephenson re specialization

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"To be interested in too many things is not conducive to professional advancement in the sciences today. You can’t write a general Ph.D. dissertation. You have to pick something very specific. What does happen from time to time is that you’ll have one scientist working on a very specific problem in one field, and another working on what seems to be

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So, you're saying the internet is the royal society on speed? (I didn't read the article)