You probably know that the Zen practitioner said to the hot dog vendor," Make me one with everything."
You might know that Carl Sagan, one of our first superstars of astronomy and cosmology, said that to make a cake from scratch, you have to first make a universe. With everything being related to everything else, you have to more or less start at Genesis or the big bang, to have anything at all. Good thing much of that work has already been done for us.
It is not uncommon for a person who gets a strong deep interest in say, aviation, to find himself studying all sorts of things he never imagined he would be studying. You start out with a plane but then you are studying business, politics, merchandising, military science, psychology, physiology, anatomy, psychophysics. Pretty soon, you are into law. You don't want to ignore depictions of the aviation life in art, literature and music. You need to study biology, including the life of viruses and bugs that travel on planes.
See, it is all connected. In fact, as David Weinberger clearly shows, it is all "Too Big to Know", but if you try, you can make quite an impressive amount of progress.
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Bill
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