Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aytekin Tank is the founder and CEO of Jotform. History attests to the creative power of polymaths. Luckily, today’s AI-, internet ...

Some of history’s greatest contributions have come from polymaths. Aristotle practically invented half a dozen fields of study across philosophy. Galileo was as much a physicist as he was an engineer ...

Today's polymaths might share the same personal qualities as Thomas Young - an abundance of grey matter, of course, combined with relentless curiosity and a tendency to workaholicism (Young barely ...

The figure of the polymath, the person whose knowledge touches many subjects, goes back at least as far as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus—and so does the skepticism inspired by these “monsters of ...

Economists tell us that the history of human labor is one of continually increasing specialization. In the days of the hunter-gatherer, every member of the tribe would have been expected to command ...

As unbelievable as it is, 2018 has come to a close, almost. The last column that I wrote on musicians and mental health seems to have struck a chord with many, and I am now hopeful that this issue can ...

Polymath is one of those words more likely to show up on the SAT than in everyday conversation. But the reason we don’t use the word much these days has less to do with vocabulary than it has to do ...

Humans live in a world of stimulating but skittish flux: Our senses swirl, our brains twitch. We are, as T.S. Eliot wrote, “distracted from distraction by distraction.” No wonder he prayed, “Teach us ...

One of my big themes these days is to look at the huge opportunities available to businesses that transform their operations, cost base or market reach through their use of the cloud. So I'm looking ...