Comments on: How to Learn About Everything

By: Karen fu

Karen fu — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:52:22 +0000

Read quickly on the other pages, and I am so happy! I have just realized npmy typo in my earlier post at number 41. It should be product design being the one that requires more in depth engineering know how. Though really industrial design would require that same branch of knowledge too, just a difference in depth. I have also missed a point why I actually come to this site. I was actually wanting to study nanotech and material science. Googling brought me to this site, which I am do happy about. I was a science student before I became an arts student. Then I romped into design which was a BA degree, which may be a problem for me to do an engineering degree now. Well actually it does. I would really be so grateful if Dr Dexler could kindly advise me how to go about doing a nanotech or material science degree. I had hoped to do a masters at SUTD whose lead college is MIT, but I have doubts on that. Much to say about it on its own but currently the urgent matter is to sort how to get on to nanotech. I love the subject! Hope to hear some replies here. Cheers!

By: Karen Fu

Karen Fu — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:34:39 +0000

Fully agree with the author! Personally I too skim and read anything that is very interesting to me. And I didn’t bother if I actually know it at all, cos eventually after reading it, the terms will sink in. I was trained in industrial design but went on to read my interest in product design which is different from industrial as the latter will include all the various engineering aspects of making. I apply the same concept to economics, marketing, philo and the rest. It cultivates the passion for learning as i am not bug down with any kind of pressure. I just learn and swing along. And that actually makes you learn more. I hope the author of this site, Dr Eric Dexler, could kindly advice a college or how to go about materializing these knowledge into quantifiable degrees that I could use to enter into the real world business of making my ideas live. I think I have plenty of obstacles here in Singapore where they need this to go there and that to do that. Cheers!

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:57:57 +0000

I am a college student freshman at the moment with an undeclared major, and have hit a wall. I want to know everything about how things work, in a very general way, from how the universe works to how the mind works. Others seem skeptical about me wanting to study all these fields, some dropping the saying “jack-of-all-trades, master of none”, but I think that all these fields of science can be applied to each other. Two examples, archaeology uses knowledge of geology and biology, and psychology uses knowledge of biology and chemistry.
I don’t know why people think that humans have limits or should focus in a single field. Don’t they call that behavior ‘narrow-minded’? If I am asked a question, I want to be able to answer it.

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By: GratefulRob

GratefulRob — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:27:34 +0000

I have found it very helpful to get an idea of the evolution of a topic, usually the thoughts of the pioneers in any given field encompass and connect the concepts that can tend to become disparate. I then find the ‘jargon’ easier to understand when one can see how and why it evolves.
P.S. I’d love to talk with others who have built a framework of ‘everything’ and have learned to place the details in their proper perspective. Feel free to email me.