Comments on: WHEN THINGS START TO THINK | Preface http://www.kurzweilai.net/preface Accelerating Intelligence Sat, 18 May 2013 08:11:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Be Afraid http://www.kurzweilai.net/preface/comment-page-1#comment-174 Be Afraid Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:52:10 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/preface#comment-174 I have noticed that same divide. The first time I started college, back in the 1980s, I was told to choose between my love of Science and my love of the Arts and Music (and my love of history, and building things -airplanes mostly, and my love of languages, etc...). It is true that the massive amounts of knowledge we have today presents us with a need for more specialization in order to have technology develop, but this should not come at the cost of cutting off people from their general love of knowledge and DOING. MB I have noticed that same divide. The first time I started college, back in the 1980s, I was told to choose between my love of Science and my love of the Arts and Music (and my love of history, and building things -airplanes mostly, and my love of languages, etc…).

It is true that the massive amounts of knowledge we have today presents us with a need for more specialization in order to have technology develop, but this should not come at the cost of cutting off people from their general love of knowledge and DOING.

MB

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