[Dn_Ab]

Unfortunately, in terms of learning the same proportions of the total sum of knowledge as the old renaissance men, attaining real renaissance personhood is impossible at current life spans. Boosting learning velocity/capacity/efficieny should help. Why must we replay histroy when teaching? But maybe we are not doing such a good job at consolidating/compressing knowledge as we used to since there is so much. A scaling problem, the entropy per bit of data is decreasing, we are increasing the total number of bits of data in our knowledge at a much higher rate than we are its entropy.

Now it is such that you are a generalist if you have peripheral knowledge of related sub sub fields of your sub field of expertize in some sub section of a topic.

[3dFlatLander]

> Boosting learning velocity/capacity/efficieny should help. Why must we replay histroy when teaching? But maybe we are not doing such a good job at consolidating/compressing knowledge as we used to since there is so much.

I think we are boosting our learning capacity and efficiency by better understanding how our minds work, and how this giant web of knowledge that we have created can be simplified. I'm absolutely dumbstruck that we still teach the majority of children using the same methods used for at least a hundred years, despite the (information) world being a completely different place than it was even a decade ago.