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Richard Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, designer and inventor who amongst his many accomplishments in 1982 came up with the concept of the “knowledge-doubling curve” [1]. He noted that until the year 1900, human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II, knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today, the rate of knowledge doubling is every 12 months, with predictions of 12 h in 2020 with the launch of the ‘Internet of Things’. It is impossible for a single human being to be a content expert in every facet of their field without help.
None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
—Mother Teresa
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Varghese, T.K. (2020). Building Multidisciplinary Teams in the Digital Age. In: Wang, T., Beck, A. (eds) Building a Clinical Practice. Success in Academic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29271-3_4
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