> Progress in a purely capitalistic sense, maybe—but in terms of human knowledge and innovation in technology, absolutely not.
No this is still the case, because even folks who understand deeply can only understand a few things deeply. I recently spent several years working in battery tech. The field could be years ahead of where it is now if so many of the field's most pressing problems didn't require researchers to deeply understand programming as well as their field.
No this is still the case, because even folks who understand deeply can only understand a few things deeply. I recently spent several years working in battery tech. The field could be years ahead of where it is now if so many of the field's most pressing problems didn't require researchers to deeply understand programming as well as their field.