A somewhat different difficulty emerges as the process of specialization occurs, and as new strengths or perceived strengths in one area or technique become more generalized or enlarged; resulting in shrinking, sometimes, or elimination, of previously dominant or related areas of knowledge.
There can be what I would call 'good', and 'bad', examples of such generalizations and shifts within and across fields and subfields.
There are also examples of borrowings , sharings, thefts, from one field by others or another, analogies, models, paradigms, gimmicks even, what have you.
These can present, once again, opportunities that I would call 'good'; and some pitfalls, both for practitioners and others affected directly or indirectly, which I would call 'bad'.
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