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Written by committee.

If you are pretty good at a lot of different things you are a rennessance<<<no clue how to spell that don't feel like looking it up... man.

Master of one trade displays the potential competency to master them all.

There's the "ivan drago paradox" where the actor who played the tall handsome and strong russian was depicted in film as a moron, but in reality is actor was a supergenius as well (the other traits from his character were also true).

In fiction, people are specialized, we are depicted as compensating for not being good at everything by all being better in specific areas, so that everyone can cover each other's weaknesses. This appeal to liberals who refuse to accept any notions of superiority, and want to hold onto the egalitarian dream that everyone has the same value by using this to explain away the evidence to the contrary.

But reality and science disagrees, turns out people are either just generally capable at developing proficiency at things in general or they just kinda suck all around, and most are somewhere in the middle of it all between being an all around superhuman and an all around subhuman.

The people who are best at anything have demonstrated their ability to get good doing anything else they attempt to learn, and this fact is hard on people who get to hear the hard truths of a Jeuden Peterstein lecture that a high enough Intelligence Quotient will get you the potential to do almost anything, while a low enough IQ means you are capable of doing thing, and that the higher end has been continuously shrinking while the lower end has been growing, and its due to the ways in which civilization has sheltered mankind from the ravages of natural selection.

Worse, this is a potentially apocalyptic crisis nobody wants to discuss, even though the implications of this development will be worse on us than even the predicted catastrophes of global warming. Idiocracy was a warning, but actually made the future look too good, the truth is that the real morons who will make up a growing majority of the future will be a lot less capable and a lot more dangerous than those friendly goofballs of the mike judge film.

The looming future is going to be the popularization and accessibility of human genetic engineering, not the kind you see in bioshock where grown adults are able to rewrite their genetic code, but the gattica kind where babies are designed as the random elements of reproduction are instead directed by technologies, and as an outcome of this we will have a genetic arms race to see who could produce the most superior babies through genetic engineering.

We will be able to do more than what we saw in gattica, we will not only be able to choose which of the parents genes end up in the child, but also be able to decide when, where, and how a mutation will occur to one of those genes, mutations that can make the offspring smarter, but also better in every other conceivable way. Perhaps humanity will edit it's own genetic code so much out of necessity to build a generation that will be able to compete with their generational peers in another country, that we will have to seriously begin to question whether the result is actually human anymore.

I think the line is at uterine replicators, when we use artificial wombs to control not just the genetics but also the environmental factors that influence the development of the child, or once we start placing people into a machine that fast-tracks them through all the preparations they need to become a functional citizen, then we can probably see some seriously dehumanized "humans" come to replace us.