Sitting on the shoulders of Giants

A thought came into my mind when i think about the technology and human beings. From stone age to present world, we all know that many generations have passed along the knowledge in between. The title has been said by Issac Newton, if i m not wrong. Then as a suspicious, pessimistic fool, I was thinking like, OK we are getting knowledge from our ancesters and we learn those from the school, universities, books and a bit of our own expereiences. And as we know the world keeps going forward, and human life span is getting shorter (pls google it). But the knowledge has been accumulated more and more which is needed to passed on to next generation. Then one day, we will reach a point that one human life span is not enough to learn all the knowledge from pervious generations. What do we do then? I have No idea.

Another fact about me being thinking particularly about this is that young ppl (newer generation) tend to learn the latest technology and they(not all but most of them) do not care much about what happen before that technology. Knowing history alone wouldn't help much, i guess. So let's say.... T1 means 1st technology that enables T2 and hence T3, T4,.. to Tn. We need people who understands all T1 to Tn. But hey it becomes impossible as only one human can take in knowledge so little. We might need a few ppl to take care of T1 to T10, and a few ppl to take care of T11 to T20 ... so and so forth. That's one solution I could think of. May be you wanna say, "hey you wanna reinvent the wheel?" I wouldn't say yes but hey we should not take everything for granted for what we have. We need systems that could manage our knowledge to distribute as efficient/effective as possible.

I think AI(artificial intelligence) is one of the solution to such problem. But I guess we are still in the age such that one person can gain most (if not all) knowledge if he/she wants to.