It is late at night and rain is storming outside while I stay warm inside a Greek restaurant and it’s with a nice glass of red in one hand that I start to write this blog post. It’s been a few days that I have been roaming the campus of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), in a small town called Lyngby north of Copenhagen where I found an Airbnb taken straight out of an Asterix comic, with thatch roof and lime wall but strangely modern inside.

Polymath - A person of wide knowledge or learning Research has become increasingly specialised - we focus on a particular discipline, then a particular field within that discipline, then a topic within that field. At the same time, knowledge is being produced at an increasingly rapid rate; IBM predicted that by 2020 world knowledge would double every 12 hours. What does this mean? Well first, it seems unlikely that a single person will ever have a wide enough knowledge base to be considered a polymath anymore.