Winston Churchill is known more as a wartime politician than as a painter and Nobel Laureate for literature. Isaac Newton, likewise, is known more for his scientific contributions than for publishing mystic and theological texts, which some would consider the exact opposite of science.

Persons of this kind were once celebrated as polymaths. Today, however, we are drawn and rewarded more for specialisation than for dabbling in and possibly mastering many things, as did Robert Sobukwe despite his incarceration. We are halved by specialisation.

I suspect, however, that the age of AI will thrust us into the abyss with no way out except by vigorously and broadly testing the thresholds of our capabilities.