hyper-specialized

Why does everyone assume the whole world understands the hyper-specialized jargon of your little garden patch of intellectual pursuit?

An effect of hyper-capital (not a problem with moderate capitalism) is that everyone gets hyper-specialized.

Taiwan pro-reunification party still grows, and its economy is hyper-specialized (not surprising, neocolonialism etc).

What happens, when we find out that everybody's job can be hyper-specialized and broken down so robots can do them...

Has anyone else become hyper-specialized in their interests because of pervasive connectivity?

Maybe it’s only 10 people in some hyper-specialized field.

I wonder sometimes if Silicon Valley really counts as a hyper-specialized region.

It is just that the current tools for working with them are currently so hyper-specialized to each individual field that they are 'ghettos' that most smart, general-purpose developers never enter.

Competing against an hyper-specialized country is hard, but if they manage to produce chips 90% as good as Taiwan, the later is in for a wild economic ride, which will probably end up as Taiwan as an autonomous Chinese region without firing any guns.

The world circa 1750 where everyone was a farmer and grew their own food and sewed their own clothes and generally did 95% of the activities necessary to sustain their lives, or the world circa 2013 where everyone does a hyper-specialized job and depends on the labor of thousands of other people doing hyper-specialized jobs to maintain their lifestyle?

In this hyper-specialized world, where we basically look to others to do the research and summarize for us, motives are extremely relevant and it is the height of naivety to pretend otherwise.

Your exclusion of hyper-specialized people like professional chess player is actually hitting the spot on the point here - high IQ people are just hyper-specialized on IQ tests (I bet many of them practiced to solve them multiple times) and generally tasks that require pattern matching.