Dumber and Dumber?
I found an interesting article by Jonah Lehrer of Wired which takes issue with Gideon Rachman's article in the Financial Times about how there is a dearth of geniuses and "great thinkers" today compared to times past.
Lehrer points out that while it may seem that our civilization is producing less of these "great minds", the reason is not that we're not as smart, but that today's great problems are so large and complex, and computer networking so widespread, that most solutions come from teams instead of individuals.
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