"In our time, specialists of all kinds are highly over-rated. We need more generalists - people who can provide broad perspectives."

In this epoch of rapidly changing societies and furiously developing technology, the world is craving for a well-balanced breed of scientists specialized in some fields, and scientists that have a broad knowledge and understanding of the world's changes.

Specialists spend days after days in laboratories, trying to find out answers to humanities most dark questions. They are the horses that pull the wagon of science forward. As Isaac Newton said, "I am standing on the shoulders of giants". He would never be able to develop mathematics and physics, if there were not many before him, many that discovered the foundations that Newton used to step on and drive the human kind a bit further.

If the former may sound too old or obsolete, the need for specialists can be shown in every-day life as well. We need them for almost every little problem we encounter in our lives; a special engineer for our car, another special engineer for our air conditioning and so long. Even univercities today have broken down their study programs to fit the markets needs for more and more specialists.

On the other hand, specialists of different fields, can not work well together, because simply they can not understand each other. And that is the role of the generalists. They are people of broad education, men and women who lust for knowledge. They usually are the CEO's or managers of large coorporations, who use their skills and wide horizoned perception to decide on the future of the world. If the specialists are the horses that pull the wagon of science forward, the generalists are the ones who drive the wagon, and make sure it stays on the right path.

Usually, generalists learn things from life itself. They are more accounted by their experience on various fields, than their experties on a specific one. And by having so much experience, they are able to have all the alternatives checked out before making a decesion. That is exactly the generalists part on today's world : making decesions.

By having more and more generalists, the quality of their decisions or the cleverness of their handlings in difficult situations would be compromised. The technology has progressed too far even for the experienced mind of a univercity graduate to understand. There are so many fields today, that need an enormous amount of people (specialists) to be covered.

Finally, the over-specification not only in sciences, but eventually in every aspect of our every-day lives, makes people more narrow-focused and in the end more introverse. Not many in the world could understand each other, if they all work or think about too specified problems. Thus, today's society needs a balance of generalists and specialists; the specialists make new discoveries, and the generalists bond them together, forming the mosaic that this time's sciences and society is.