[sdiy] design experts

[Magnus Danielson]

From: ASSI <Stromeko at Compuserve.DE>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] design experts
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:32:23 +0200

> On Thursday 14 August 2003 06:35, metasonix wrote:
> > In most cases, the "expert" turns out to be an expert in one small,
> > narrow area--and rarely knows a damn thing about audio design.
> 
> Expert: an individual who increases his knowledge about a decreasing 
> number of subjects until he knows everything about nothing.

It should be (but isn't as Achim correctly pointed out in his irony):

Expert: an individual who increases his knowledge about sufficiently many
different and seemingly unrelated things so he can see things clearer than the
next man.

Why? It is easy to know all about some infinitisemal small area and be able to
"handle it". However, that doesn't solve all real-life problems. Real-life
problems isn't confined to human defined fields of science, humans constantly
has to redefine things to match the real-life problems, that's what we as
fellow scientists do.

Let's look at this with "electronics" what do we actually do?

We do physics in zillions of ways, some of them still remains research fields.

We do metalurgy when we solder different metals together, throw in gold layer
and we really got it kicking since the gold integrates instantly into the
solder when we solder on it.

We do chemistry when we solder, use electrolytics, batteries...

We do math in our futile attempts to master the beast

We do .... 

So what is really the topic of "electronics"? C'mon! ;O)

Cheers,
Magnus