great article, i love the diagram on page 2, again it seems to me that there is a huge paradigm shift afoot and that it will no longer be enough to understand one field of knowlege in an isolated way, but that one must at least know all fields with which it interfaces. politics and science is another glaring often overlooked connection. all of this probably stems from previous (and probably eurocentric) mindset that the world is ours for the dominating, and it is fine to pinch off larger and larger parts to play with, rather than the fact that we are subject to natural laws and are actually a smaller piece in a greater whole.

I sense this paradigm shift as well, and hope that we are correct about it. Changes do seem very slow in coming though.