As long as civilization is allowed to progress on a technological/scientific forever upward curve… then it naturally follows that civilization becomes less and less specialized… for example: Aristotle was more specialized than Francis Bacon… Bacon by simply living in a more technologically advanced time, new more than Aristotle…. and as a natural progression Galileo was less specialized, or more integrated with reality than even the combined knowledge of Aristotle and Bacon.
Craig H.