What has happened? Of course, specialization is necessary; no single human can grasp the immense explosion of knowledge that science has produced in the past two centuries. "Renaissance Man" is no longer possible.
On the other hand, the body of human knowledge is one. There must be communication within that body, between the specialists and between the disciplines. Nature is not divided into disciplines, nor are the problems that are facing us. Some examples:

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