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Fuller cautions: Specialization tends to shut off the wide-band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery.
The Marginalian β’ Buckminster Fullerβs Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
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One of the problems with being "rational" in your own estimation is that you are probably only being rational about one dimension of a surprisingly complex situation
Davidtwitter.com"The core ideal of the Internet is that one trusts people, and that given an opportunity, people will find their way to be reasonably decent. I happily restate my loyalty to that ideal. Itβs all we have." (Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?)
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Fuller points to the usefulness of useless knowledge as a critical element in this collective abundance and the salvation of our species: Specializationβs preoccupation with parts deliberately forfeits the opportunity to apprehend and comprehend what is provided exclusively by synergy.