ABSTRACT
This book describes a methodology to address a basic problem that is challenging progress in every eld of human intellectual activity: We have become much better at the generation of information than its integrative analysis. is leads to deep ineciencies in translating research into progress for humanity. No scientist can keep up with the unrelenting ow of new studies and results, even within specialized elds. While intuition and selective reading in a highly narrowed eld of work are essential and can certainly lead to breakthroughs, they are also likely to lead most scientists at one time or another toward deeply unproductive hypotheses that might have benetted from more comprehensive insights into the data that was available but which we could not nd an opportunity to learn about. Specialization also inherently limits the opportunities to nd common ground at the interface between elds, even though these interfaces are oen among the deepest areas of scientic synthesis (Figure 23.1).
