This is what's wrong with scholarship today: the increasingly narrow focus on tiny silos of knowledge. "Artificial disciplinary boundaries were drawn, and research was put in silos that grew ever narrower... Institutional boundaries and funding incentives often discourage, rather than encourage people in different fields to collaborate." And this is what's changing today. "We are starting to see biological research come full circle again. The interdisciplinary approach both to research and learning is starting to gain favor again because people are starting to recognize the dysfunction that is often apparent in large research institutions, but also because the small and nimble research labs are proving they have a method for speeding the pace and reducing the cost of discovery."
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