Last Renaissance Man - Revision history

Strangelv: Removing controversial tag -- there is no evidence of this article being a problem

2007-06-17T16:45:22Z

Removing controversial tag -- there is no evidence of this article being a problem

Jriley: reformat

2007-05-26T11:41:52Z

reformat

Strangelv: essays categorization

2007-03-28T05:04:41Z

essays categorization

Jriley: /* Stepping outside our limits */

2007-03-08T01:49:38Z

Stepping outside our limits

Jarogers2001: /* What this means to Lunarpedia */ fixed some grammar

2007-03-06T17:47:47Z

What this means to Lunarpedia: fixed some grammar

Jarogers2001: /* Long Ago and Far Away */ fixed typos

2007-03-06T17:45:31Z

Long Ago and Far Away: fixed typos

66.137.92.190: /* Stepping outside our limits */ fixed categories and some typos

2007-03-06T17:42:18Z

Stepping outside our limits: fixed categories and some typos

Jriley: Who was the last renaissance man? Was it you?

2007-03-04T16:54:38Z

Who was the last renaissance man? Was it you?

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==The Last Renaissance Man==

Who was the last renaissance man? Was it you?

===Long Ago and Far Away===

In a time before Gutenberg, there were men, and a few women, who know everything there was to know in their societies. They were up on the latest theology, on the latest medicine, on the latest science, and on the latest politics. They did all this by exchanging letters and attending meetings. These were the Renaissance men.

Then the books came and knowledge exploded. No one could keep on top of everything anymore. It just was not physically possible. Every body had to specialize just to stay in action at all. About that time there lived the last Renaissance man.

You can pick your champion for that title; perhaps Dura, perhaps Galileo, perhaps Newton. Who he was does not mater to us now. That he is no more does mater.

===What this means to Lunarpedia===

We cannot be on top of everything. The best we can do is follow a few specialties that suit our interests and talents. Such specialization is equivalent to wearing a set of blinders, like a race horse, and a set of filters on our ears, like a Ipod user. We simply do not see and we do not hear very much that is outside our specific experience.

The last Renaissance man is long gone. We cannot be one and we are much better off not thinking we can. The best any modern person can do is simply be aware that we are all wearing both blinders on our eyes and filters on our ears. And be aware that others are also wearing different blinders and filters.

We can give people the space to exist in a universe flooded with information. In return we can ask that they grant us that freedom.

===Stepping outside our limits===

Sometimes, and only sometimes, we can step outside our existing limitations. We can look at the actions of a person and clearly see the blinders that limit their actions. Sometimes we can even watch for a short time using their blinders.

There is a strong Humans-on-Mars community. Their blinders and filters are similar to those of our Back-to-the-Moon community but not quite the same. Each group understanding the others limitation is the key to each supporting the other.

There is also a prevent-global-warming community. We back-to-the-Moon people could easily get into fierce competition for scarce space resources with this group. We must understand each others blinders to keep such a competition for ham stringing both of us.

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 In a time before Gutenberg, there were men, and a few women, who knew everything there was to know in their societies.  They were up on the latest theology, on the latest medicine, on the latest science, and on the latest politics.  They did all of this by exchanging letters and attending meetings.  These were the Renaissance men.
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 You can pick your champion for that title; perhaps Dura, perhaps Galileo, perhaps Newton.  Who he was does not matter to us now.  That he is no more does matter.
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 We cannot be on top of everything.  The best we can do is follow a few specialties that suit our interests and talents.  Such specialization is equivalent to wearing a set of blinders, like a race horse, and a set of filters on our ears, like an Ipod user.  We simply do not see and we do not hear very much that is outside our specific experience.
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 We can give people the space to exist in a universe flooded with information.  In return we can ask that they grant us that freedom.
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 Sometimes, and only sometimes, we can step outside our existing limitations.  We can look at the actions of a person and clearly see the blinders that limit their actions.  Sometimes we can even watch for a short time using their blinders.

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 Sometimes, and only sometimes, we can step outside our existing limitations.  We can look at the actions of a person and clearly see the blinders that limit their actions.  Sometimes we can even watch for a short time using their blinders.
-There is a strong Humans-on-Mars community.  Their blinders and filters are similar to those of our Back-to-the-Moon community but not quite the same.  Each group understanding the others limitation is the key to each supporting the other.
+There is a strong Humans-on-Mars community.  Their blinders and filters are similar to those of our Back-to-the-Moon community but not quite the same.  Each group understanding the others limitations is the key to each group supporting the other.
-There is also a prevent-global-warming community.  We back-to-the-Moon people could easily get into fierce competition for scarce space resources with this group.  We must understand each others blinders to keep such a competition for ham stringing both of us.
+There is also a prevent-global-warming community.  We back-to-the-Moon people could easily get into fierce competition for scarce space resources with this group.  We must understand each other's blinders in order to keep such a competition from ham-stringing both of us.
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