Thursday, June 16, 2011

No Discipline At All

Larry Page of Google is fond of saying that looking at things from a different perspective could lead to unexpected solutions.  Sometimes in engineering you look at things with tunnel vision and need a broader perspective.  Page has stated that those individuals that produce significant change are individuals that are not uber-specialists but broad thinkers with broad experiences.

Frank Moss is the former head of The Media Lab at MIT.  The term "media" in this case has unbounded meaning that allows the lab to look at broad range of technologies.  One part of the lab in the Smart Cities group, where the ultra-compact CityCar electric automobile has been developed.  The team that developed the car consisted of groups in architecture, urban planning, mechanical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, systems engineering, medicine, neuroscience, visual arts, business management, science, and sociology.  Moss has suggested that one of the most important disciplines in the twenty-first century will be no discipline at all.

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