> "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
-- Robert Heinlein
I've certainly always found being a generalist more satisfying, even if it isn't always what gets rewarded.
I wouldn't necessarily restrict this to "the digital world."
Yet the advancements in human civilization arose precisely from specialization. Nobody would have had time to build computers if they had to spend all day farming, building houses and writing sonnets.
Perhaps "overspecialisation" then. Plenty of people build early computers while having other interests on the side. And the microcomputer era was substantially driven by people doing it as a hobby.
This is true, because nowadays many people don't know how to do all the things above, because its all about the digital world. Yay! We should get even more broader.
Learning to plan an invasion is actually not worth doing. It takes way too long (invasions are really fucking complex operations) and if you actually need it, you will know about it 3 years before.
I wouldn't necessarily restrict this to "the digital world."