Thread: Obsolete Skills
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Old 09-18-2007, 05:06 PM
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Default Re: Obsolete Skills

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I guess people are just more specialized . . . than they once were.

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This is a good thing. A very, very, very good thing.

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But it doesn't feel good [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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because it shouldn't. it means you have less knowledge about the things around you.



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This is also a very, very, very good thing. Do you see why?

The last time everyone knw everything there was to know about all of the technologies that were utilized in their lives was probably the stone age. It is an extremely good thing that the fraction of known technological information that the typical person can master is going down rapidly.
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