Over the past century the expert has dethroned the educated generalist to become the sole model of intellectual accomplishment.

Now you know there was a time that you thought maybe, you know, to be a generalist would be wonderful.

I start to think there might not be something so special about this idea of a generalist, particularly when we start doing things like hooking Siri up to Watson, and having technologies that can understand what we're saying and repeat speech back to us.