Some folks don't think physicists should be in a computer science department. The departmental protest was not about the candidate's skill set or accomplishments, but simply about the nominal category-fields through which they were trained.
The future of work will include a courageous engagement with questions of how to slice knowledge into meaningful bundles, challenging disciplinary boundaries and promoting progress.
How do we slice the universe of knowledge into pieces that organize expertise into meaningful bundles? Is it the structure that allows us to be the most productive, to generate the most ideas, or that which works the best administratively?
#disciplinary-boundaries #expertise-organization #academic-controversies #future-of-work #knowledge-organization
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