Is this, perhaps, the death of Generalism in general?
When I studied computers, back in the iron age of computers, the study was called Computer Science.
When we questioned, once, the wisdom of calling the course of study Computer Science, we were told that Physics was once called The Physical Sciences. When, in due course, the study of computers was understood by everyone to be a science, the language would follow and drop the redundant tail.
But is that what has happened? Read the rest of this entry »