cirk2 wrote:Have youe ever heard from the principe of shared work?
I did read a book called "the mythical man month" - can you explain the tenets of that work to me? Is it wrong?
"No one can be specialist in all fields mostly you are specal in one subject, might two."
Benjamin Franklin is rolling in his grave, quitters never win.
"And an specialist ist always better in his area than an allrounder."
The educated idiots I could tell you about when working at IBM.
"So lets have a look at the Industry (in example):"
Let me give you real world experience and take some of that rosy colored shine off your eyeballs, a long time ago in a galaxy far away there was this researcher working for a company called IBM in Armonk. He researched and developed new lithographic type processes to make chips smaller and faster and more efficient. Some MBA type who liked to play golf and was specialized in running numbers to profit from his stock options decided to shelve this stuff and put that guy in a dark cold closet where a mainframe freezer used to reside. The researcher was invited to play golf and to understand the value of stock options, but he grew restless and wandered off to somewhere in asia. Later on IBM got to license the very technology they paid to research and develop from some Asian company this guy was now working for - whodathunk?
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The rube goldberg policies that make up the complexity of the modern world just don't fit into your simplified examples - devils and details frustrate a lot of people so they just choose not to deal with them.
"While the Ingeneer is developing the Display panel of an IZ3D he has no knowlege of Programming. In the other way the Driver programmer doesn't know how an LCD panel is build. But when they work together they compile together an make an better End-Product than if one have leared the Programming and Engineering."
Today the world economy is blowing up because nobody was able to see the forest for the trees anymore, too many specialists, too few leanardo davinci renaissance men, the proof is in the pudding, just turn on your tv or read your local news.
"Your statement from above is some way of typical American motivation bla bla."
Nation states and national pride is so last century.
"Shure ther have to be people that are contributing to the community, but I think Linus Towald can't tell you how an (Automobile-)engine work..."
He knew a lot about transmeta though didn't he? That flopped though - I asked my mazda dealer why there are not more rotary engines out there.
"There have to be specialist, when everyone knows everything we will be ther where we was: Single Individuals or small groups of people wandering arround in the wilderness, becaus there is no need to build up large communties."
I agree a lot with what you say, but my friend, a good citizen of the world is abreast of a great many different things, and too much specialization is as great a travesty as too little, moderation in all things. I like to think of all the humans in that scifi show LEXX who kept feeding the big bug, so specialized in their own little tasks they didn't know they were helping create their own armageddon. Kind like the financial blowup the world is going through now. The cube with that canadian scientist guy from stargate atlantis is also a good example.