Would you rather live in a society of renaissance men and women...

[Lark]

Or a society in which people are more specialized in their professions, roles, responsibilities?

Would a good society aim at "every man is own doctor" for instance or is it better to have a greater "division of labour"?

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

The former. Specialization seems really limiting to me.

 

[Virtual ghost]

The technology simply requires more specializations with longer and longer education. While economic competitiveness requires better understanding of various technologies.
Knowledge is power and having larger and large amounts of people that can genuinely get to the bottom of things is very beneficiary for the society.

 

[Mole]

The book privileged the eye, while the net is democratising all our senses, our tactile sense, our proprioceptive sense, our aural sense, our visual sense, and our visceral sense.

The Renaissance was carried out by the eye, in linear and sequential space, while the net exercises almost all our senses, except our olfactory sense, where everything is immediate, and linear sequential time and space are abolished.

The eye created the literate individual, Renaissance man, while the net is busy create electronic tribes in real time in emotional contact with each other.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Both.

 

[ceecee]

Both.

Definitely.

 

[Jaq]

Both.

Ditto.

 

[Mole]

Both.

We all want to have our cake and eat it too.

We long for a magic pudding, that never diminishes no matter how much we eat, click The Pudding Owner's Song - YouTube.